Week 25 U.S. History: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression 1929-1932

 

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U.S. History Week 25

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932

I designed a quiz related to chapter 25 at the bottom of this article.

Directions for the quiz:

1. Scroll down & click on the first thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
2. Choose an answer for each question.
3. Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
4. The correct answer is on the screen following the question.
5. Compare your answers with those provided.
6. If you cannot easily see the correct answer, check the captions.

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Review the following Chapter 25 pages:

• Introduction
• The Stock Market Crash of 1929
• President Hoover’s Response
• The Depths of the Great Depression
• Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
• Key Terms
• Summary

Practice learning Chapter 25 Key Terms on Quizlet.

Week 25 Videos:

• Crash Course: The Great Depression (14:26)
• The 1929 Stock Market Crash (9:14)
• Black Blizzards (4:41)
• The Case of the Scottsboro Boys (2:31)
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (3:13)
• President Hoover’s 1931 Stimulus Plan (4:45)
• Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers: Pick Yourself Up (2:22)
• Shirley Temple Tap Dancing with Bojangles (1:53)
• Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney - Yankee Doodle Dandy (1:04)

Review the following information featuring the U.S.:

• Pennsylvania (7:26)
• Rhode Island (5:50)
• Gerald R. Ford
• Betty Ford
• Jimmy Carter
• Rosalynn Carter

Additional Resources:

• Chapter 25 Review Questions
• Chapter 25 Critical Thinking Questions
• Chapter 25 Partial Answer Key

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U.S. History Week 25 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 
The Great Depression 1929-1932 

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In 1929, Herbert Hoover did all of the following EXCEPT:
Answer choices include:
create the Federal Farm Board,
veto an old-age pension program,
create the Veterans Administration,
establish the Federal Bureau of Prisons

The correct answer is veto an old-age pension program.

Almost __ of households lost lifelong
savings and jobs during the Great Depression.
Answer choices include: 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, all

The correct answer is 1/3.

On October 29, 1929, New York Stock Exchange
holders lost over ___ of wealth.
Answer choices include:
$14,000, $140,000, $14 million, $14 billion

The correct answer is $14 billion.

Approximately __ percent of Americans controlled
over ⅓ of the country’s wealth in the 1920s.
Answer choices include: 1, 5, 10, 25

The correct answer is 1.

Employers and husbands often resisted married women
being employed during the Great Depression.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

The federal government quickly stepped in to help the
“deserving poor” during the Great Depression.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is false.

President Hoover and many others believed in ___,
the idea that Americans who worked hard would have their rewards.
Answer choices include: American collectivism,
American individualism, American teamwork, American charity

The correct answer is American individualism.

In 1930-31, Congress passed a bill to provide
relief with all of the following EXCEPT:
Answer choices include: fertilizer,
animal feed, food, The bill provided all three.

The correct answer is food.

Herbert Hoover was the first to reject
his salary as President of the United States.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

Herbert Hoover was one of the most liked
and popular American presidents of all time.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is false.

Some farmers would purchase foreclosed farms
at auction for very little money and then ___.
Answer choices include:
sell it for a large profit,
keep it for themselves,
return the land to the owner,
auction it to the highest bidder

The correct answer is return the land to the owner.

The Bonus Army’s requests for early payment were met with violence.
Who were members of the Bonus Army?
Answer choices include: World War I veterans,
previously enslaved persons, women with children,
those suffering stock market losses

The correct answer is World War I veterans.

As late as 1939, approximately ___ percent of
farm families were classified as “impoverished?”
Answer choices include: 20, 40, 60, 80

The correct answer is 80.

Wrongly accused of rape in 1932, in what year did
Alabama issue pardons to the nine Scottsboro Boys?
Answer choices include: 1940, 1976, 2013, 2022

The correct answer is 2013.

Not rotating crops & allowing fields to remain fallow
between plantings contributed to the catastrophic ___.
Answer choices include: Great Plains Flood,
Urban Shanty Towns, Stock Market Crash, Dust Bowl

The correct answer is Dust Bowl.

John Steinbeck wrote ___ to highlight a
displaced family living of the Dust Bowl.
Answer choices include: War and Peace,
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Great Expectations

The correct answer is The Grapes of Wrath.

Who starred with Mickey Rooney in the Hardy series?
Answer choices include: Shirley Temple,
Judy Garland, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire

The correct answer is Judy Garland.

The Hoover-Stimpson Doctrine detailed that the U.S.
would not recognize claims to territories claimed by ___.
Answer choices include: exclusive deals,
Asian countries, economic manipulation, force

The correct answer is force.

___ was a Native American who was Hoover’s vice presidential
running mate in the 1928 race.
Answer choices include:
Albert P. Adams, Billy Akers, Charles Curtis, Black Hawk

The correct answer is Charles Curtis.

Hoover felt that instead of reforms or legislation that
African Americans would benefit more from ___.
Answer choices include: bread lines & public housing,
assimilation & education, the Red Cross & YMCA, deportation to Liberia

The correct answer is assimilation & education.

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