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Putting down a small amount of cash to buy shares of a stock is known as

Percentage buying

Buying on margin

Mania buying

Buying on time

Shantytowns of the suddenly poor and displaced were known as

Hoovervilles

Dust Bowls

Bust Towns.

Povertyvilles

In 1932 a march on Washington was made by a group of unemployed veterans called

Coxey’s Army

The Bonus Army.

Hoover’s Army

The Bogus Army

The stock market “crash” refers to

the failure of people to repay loan for stock bought on the margin

The huge drop in the value of stocks.

The inflated value of many stocks

Millions of shares of stock being traded in one day

In 1932 the percentage of unemployed was about

10 percent

25 percent

20 percent

35 percent

Hoover opposed direct government relief for individuals MAINLY because he believed that

The costs would bankrupt the nation

The character of the American people would be damaged

The economy was about to recover

Private charity would rescue those in need

Which is the correct chronological order of presidential administrations?

Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt

Hoover, Coolidge, Harding, Franklin Roosevelt

Hoover, Harding, Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt

Coolidge, Harding, Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt

The “hundred days” was the time period

Between FDR’s election and the first inauguration

Immediately following FDR’s first inauguration

Concluding FDR’s first term.

Immediately following FDR’s second inaugurationstock speculation.

The Twenty-first Amendment ended

Stock speculation.

The four-month “lame-duck” period

Prohibition

The gold standard

The four-month period between election and inauguration of a new President was eliminated by

Order of the Supreme Court

Ratification of the Twentieth Amendment

Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.

Order of the Federal Election Commission.

The Glass-Steagall Act reformed the

Banking system

Election system

Tax system

Securities system

In 1938, Roosevelt resumed large-scale spending to counter the

Congressional purge

Roosevelt recession

Expansion of Italy, Germany, and Japan.

Actions of the Supreme Court.

Roosevelt’s first cabinet was made up of

Loyal Democrats

Professors and scholars

A mixture of politicians, leaders, and friends

Former cabinet members

FDR’s “pump priming” required

Balancing the federal budget

Limiting production.

Running up a federal deficit

Repealing Prohibition.

To regulate the stock market and to prevent abuses by sellers of stocks and bonds, Congress in 1934 set up the

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Securities and Exchange Commission

NLRB

The purpose of the WPA was to

Help business

Reestablish confidence in the banking system

Provide immediate financial aid to farmers

Provide work for the able-bodied unemployed.

The New Deal came to an end in 1938 because

The Supreme Court ruled most New Deal programs unconstitutional

FDR was stricken with polio

National concern shifted to overseas aggression

FDR was defeated in his bid for reelection

The course of business recovery from 1933 to 1939

Was steadily upward

Was up one year and down the next.

Peaked in 1935

Was upward until hit by a recession in 1937–1938

Most New Deal programs

Were continuations of earlier programs.

Were aimed at trust-busting

Were aimed at helping farmers

Greatly expanded the role of government

The agreement to dismember Czechoslovakia was made in the

Munich Pact

Platt Amendment

Neutrality Act of 1937

Versailles Peace Treaty

A British Prime Minister who favored a policy of appeasement was

Winston Churchill

Neville Chamberlain

Cordell Hull

Henry Stimson.

A measure by which the United States made plans for Philippine independence was the

�Good Neighbor policy.”

Neutrality Act of 1939

Tydings-McDuffie Act

Japanese-American Commercial Treaty

An institution invented by the Nazis to hold and dispose of Jews and political opponents was a (an)

Concentration camp

Quarantine camp

German district

Isolation district

The event that started World War II in Europe was Germany’s invasion of

Poland

France

The Soviet Union

Belgium

From 1933 to 1939 Congress responded to war and threats of war in the world by

Ordering the arming of American merchant vessels

Insisting on freedom of the seas

Putting limits on the sale of arms to belligerents.

Stopping manufacture of armaments

Which of the following most reflected the desire of the United States for neutrality prior to 1941?

Destroyers-for-bases” deal

Convoying of British ships

Lend-Lease Act

Passage of Tydings-McDuffie Act

The co-signers of the Atlantic Charter were

Churchill and Roosevelt

Stalin and Hitler

Mussolini and Hitler

Chamberlain and Roosevelt.

The “Day of Infamy” refers to the

German bombing of Conventry

Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbo

Signing of the Munish Pact.

German seizure of Czechoslovakia

What evidence best illustrates that the mood of the American public was strongly isolationist before 1939?

A. Reaction to the “Panay” incident

The Good Neighbor policy

Passage of a conscription act

A 1937 public opinion poll on a proposed constitutional amendment

United States gunboat sunk by Japan in China in 1937, for which Japan apologized.

1939 agreement between Germany and the USSR not to fight and to share control of Poland.

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