The Great Depression --100 Point Test

This is a 10 point assignment.  It is due the day BEFORE THE TEST.  All work should be completed on a separate sheet of paper.  All answers must be completed including the open-ended question.

format of test (27 MC & T-F items, 13 matching, 1 open-ended question)

 

1.        list new electrical appliances that eased life in the 1930s

  1. what did the federal Reserve do to the amount of money in circulation.?
  2. What area of the country was most affected by the dust storms from 1932 to 1939?
  3. beside politicians which groups called for social change through their work?
  4. How did advertising portray housework in the 1930’s?
  5. Before the stock market crash of 1929, how did many economists and politicians of the late 1920s view the new era America was in?
  6. Why as the stock market was an attractive gamble for thousands of Americans during the late 1920s?
  7. During the dust storms, many Great Plains farmers abandoned their farms and headed to California, what were they lured by?
  8. How was Herbert Hoover’s handling of the bonus army viewed by many Americans?
  9. describe what happened with unemployment in America between 1929 and 1932?
  10. How did documentary photography during the Great Depression, such as that of Dorothea Lange, portray the depression?
  11. How were movies changed during the 1930’s?
  12. what happened to the number of registered automobiles between 1933 and 1942?
  13. After the stock market crash, the Federal Reserve system followed a policy that did what to credit?
  14. When the stock market crashed in 1929,what happened to those who bought on margin?
  15. why were many employment opportunities  open to women during the 1930s ?
  16. For the majority of Americans the most damaging loss during the Depression was that of what?
  17. What is a depression? Recession?
  18. Which group of Americans were the hardest hit by the depression?  How can you prove this?  (refer to the readings)
  19. Did people feel despair during the Great Depression? (refer to the readings)
  20. What were Hoovervilles?
  21. Who said this, “the first obligation of government is the protection of the welfare and well-being…of its citizens”? (refer to the readings)
  22. Describe buying on margin?  Is it risky?
  23. Discuss the migration patterns of people in the U.S. during the depression.  (refer to the readings).
  24. During the worst years of the depression in America, how many people were unemployed? (refer to the readings)

 

MATCHING  ITEMS

 
  1. The Grapes of Wrath
  2. Okies
  3. speculation
  4. Douglas MacArthur
  5. Gone With the Wind
  6. repatriation
  7. foreclosure
  8. depression
  9. Fred Astaire
  10. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  11. Talkies
  12. mass media
  13. Monopoly

 

OPEN-ENDED QUESTION  (10 points)

Answer the question below on a separate sheet of paper.

The stock market can have an impact on the lives of many people.  The most obvious impact is on those people who directly invest their money in the stock market.  But the stock market affects many other people.  Write a response to each of the following items below (each is worth 5 points)

 

  • Discuss one way in which the stock market can have an impact on the lives of someone who is NOT a direct investor in the stock market.
  • Explain why some people who did not invest in the stock market were impoverished by its crash in 1929.