Chapter 22 Test

This is a test. There is to be absolutely no talking. If you are caught talking, your paper will be

taken up, a zero will be given, and you will be written up. I know this

will not be a problem. Good Luck!

1. What did people call the youths who hopped trains and traveled

about America in search of work, adventure, and an escape from

poverty?

• A. hoboes

• B. Hoover tourists

• C. Coolidge tourists

• D. New Deal Tourists

2. What mining engineer and former Secretary of Commerce had

little political experience but was elected president right before the

Great Depression?

• A. Calvin Coolidge

• B. Franklin D. Roosevelt

• C. Herbert Hoover

• D. Howard Taft

3. What is the term for the purchase of stocks and bonds for the chance at a quick profit, while

ignoring the risk of losing all of your money?

• A. speculation

• B. buying on the margin

• C. trading

• D. none of the above

4. In what US city were the troops of the “Bonus Army” gassed and

attacked by US troops?

• A. New York City, NY

• B. Washington, D.C.

• C. Philadelphia, PA

• D. Boston, MA

5. What popular board game, invented in 1933, was an inexpensive form of family

entertainment during the Great Depression?

• A. uno

• B. monopoly

• C. spades

• D. candy land

6. What was the name given to the Great Plains region hardest hit by

the drought and winds of the 1930’s?

• A. Hooverville

• B. Great Depression

• C. Dust country

• D. none of the above

7. What fell more than 40% after the passage of the Hawley-Smoot

Tariff Act, which was meant to boost domestic trade and protect

American business?

• A. domestic trade

• B. world trade

• C. stock market

• D. trade with Mexico

8. What did people call the thousands of farmers and

sharecroppers that left their homes in the 1930’s heading west in

search of jobs?• A. Okies

• B. Sooners

• C. hoboes

• D. none of the above

9. This is the term given to small settlements that sprang up all

across the US during the Great Depression. The settlements were characterized by shacks, old rusty

cars, and cardboard boxes in which people lived.

• A. skankvilles

• B. Coolidgevilles

• C. shantytowns/Hoovervilles

• D. none of the above

10. What presidential candidate was sure that he would be elected

the next US president when he heard about the raid on the Bonus

Army?

• A. Herbert Hoover

• B. Franklin D. Roosevelt

• C. Calvin Coolidge

• D. William Jennings Bryan

11. What is the term for cash payments or food provided by the

government to the poor?

• A. handouts

• B. welfare

• C. direct relief

• D. soup kitchens

12. The stock market crash that began the Great Depression

happened on what date?

• A. October 29, 1928

• B. October 28, 1929

• C. October 29, 1929

• D. October 28, 1928

13. The stock market crash of the Great Depression was popularly known as _________ _______.

• A. Black Monday

• B. Dark Friday

• C. Freaky Friday

• D. Black Tuesday

14. Who were the nearly 300,000 homeless men who used a secret

sign language to warn about danger and locate food?

• A. Okies

• B. hoboes

• C. tramps

• D. bums

15. What 1932 law lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance

land in order regain their ownership over their land?

• A. Federal Home Loan Bank Act

• B. Federal Loans

• C. direct relief

• D. Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act

16. Between 1929 and 1932, what process took land away from

400,000 farmers who could not make mortgage payments?

• A. refinancing

• B. foreclosure

• C. direct relief

• D. none of the above

17. What massive construction project approved by Herbert

Hoover would provide electricity, flood control and a regular water

supply to western states?

• A. Boulder Dam

• B. Hoover Dam

• C. none of the above

• D. both A and B

18. For children, the Great Depression meant ______.

• A. longer school days

• B. direct relief payments

• C. frequent doctor’s visits

• D. poor nutrition

19. Hoover’s pledge of a ‘chicken in every pot’ promised a __________.• A. hen for every household

• B. nutritious hot dinner every night

• C. spread of prosperity

• D. less-involved government

20. Hoover’s political life ended as a result of the ___________.

• A. Bonus Army attacking the infantry

• B. veto of the Patman Bill

• C. infantry attacking the Bonus Army

• D. passage of the Patman Bill

21. The decline in new housing impacted such industries as ____.

• A. automobiles and railroads

• B. coal and oil

• C. agriculture and farm equipment

• D. furniture and appliances

22. The top 30 firms represented at the New York Stock Exchange.

This is used as a sign of the economy’s health.

• A. Nasdaq

• B. Bill Jones Industrial Average

• C. Dow Jones Industrial Average

• D. none of the above

23. How did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act effect the world

economy?

• A. it helped the world economy

• B. it hurt the world economy

• C. it did not effect the world economy

• D. what in the heck is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

24. Childhood malnutrition was a constant problem of the Great

Depression. Which of the following was a disorder which effected

many children?

• A. small pox

• B. rickets

• C. milk leg

• D. measles

25. Milk leg affected which part of the American population?

• A. children

• B. men

• C. women who could not have children

• D. women who could have children

26. In the late 1920’s, most Americans felt the economy

would…

• A. soon collapse

• B. continue to prosper

• C. begin to slow

• D. continue to decline

27. During the 1920’s, most of the nation’s wealth was in the hands

of….

• A. corporations and wealthy families

• B. farmers and workers

• C. labor unions

• D. small businesses

28. The stock market crash of the late 1920’s led directly to …

• A. a rapid recovery

• B. prosperity in Europe

• C. higher farm prices

• D. the Great Depression

29. The term “Hooverville” was used to describe ….

• A. housing built by the government

• B. President Hoover’s home\

• C. shelters built by homeless people

• D. the stock market

30. Hard times on the farms of the Great Plains caused many farm

families ….

• A. move to Canada

• B. begin growing cash crops

• C. move south to become sharecroppers

• D. move to California

Bonus: Who did the University of Alabama’s basketball team play

last night?

• A. University of Texas

• B. Akron University

• C. Troy University

• D. University of Miami (Ohio)