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Multiple Choice Chapter 23 Self-Quiz 2
Schaller, 3e_MC 23.2
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A major reason why international trade stalled in the early 1930s was
the nation's lack of raw materials.
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a lack of skilled labor.
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a complete stop in investment and commerce.
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a serious lack of capital.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt first entered politics in 1910 as
a Democrat in the New York legislature.
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an organizer in his cousin's Progressive Party.
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a Republican challenging Woodrow Wilson.
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an independent mayor of New York City.
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Why did millions of small savers rush to withdraw billions of dollars from their accounts between 1929 and 1933?
They needed cash for bigger purchases.
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Unemployed, these savings kept them afloat.
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Most Americans feared rapid inflation.
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Deposits were uninsured and customers did not trust their banks.
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Which of the following measures passed during the first one hundred days of Roosevelt's New Deal administration?
Amended the Volstead Act
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Social Security Act
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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Wagner Act
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Which of the following statements best assesses the success of the New Deal in ending the Great Depression?
Economic growth above 1.5 percent did not return to the nation until 1944.
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Mass unemployment was virtually eliminated by 1935.
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Deficit spending plunged the economy further into Depression by 1936.
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Only the massive stimulus of wartime spending spurred full recovery.
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How many members did Huey Long's Share Our Wealth Clubs have across the nation at its height?
500,000
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1 million
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5 million
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15 million
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The Rural Electrification Administration benefited millions of Americans because of farms had no electricity in 1935.
90%
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50%
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34%
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74%
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Which of the following did the WPA not construct between 1935 and 1941?
1,050 airfields
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3,300 sports stadiums
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900 armories
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5,056 bomb shelters
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How did the United Auto Workers force General Motors and Ford to accept their union in the winter of 1936–1937?
They staged sit-down strikes in Flint, Michigan.
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They marched in a national moratorium in San Francisco.
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They fought Chicago police on the streets and in plants.
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They lobbied Congress and the president in Washington, DC.
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How was John Maynard Keynes' countercyclical deficit spending supposed to work in economic boom times?
by paying off public debt
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by deregulating monopolies
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by abolishing industrial unions
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by cutting taxes on the rich
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Who was the German boxer faced by Joe Louis in 1936 and 1938?
Herman Goering
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Max Schmeling
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Heinrich Himmler
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Lothar Matthaeus
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Who was the author of the nationally syndicated newspaper column "My Day" during the 1930s?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Herbert Hoover
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Charles Lindbergh
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How did most African Americans vote in the 1936 election?
Democratic
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Republican
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Progressive
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Socialist
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Why did the New Deal administration impose limits on mining, grazing, and farming on or around reservations?
to prevent Christian missionaries from encroaching on Indian cultures
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to restrict resources for meat-packing monopolies
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to limit the prosperity of "economic royalists"
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to protect native tribal cultures on the reservations
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How did John Maynard Keynes respond to the economic downturn of 1937?
He took it as proof that the private economy had only partially recovered, and still required federal stimulus.
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He dismissed it as a speculative manipulation of the stock market.
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He was surprised since it did not square with his General Theory.
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He defended the economic performance as satisfactory given the global situation.
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