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Saturday, July 22, 2023

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:

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

An interactive version is available on Kahoot!
Search for this week’s topic by Katrena to find it.

Review the following Chapter 25 pages:

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)

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

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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Monday, June 5, 2023

Week 31 World History: Years of Crisis 1919-1939

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This world history resource focuses on years of crisis,
including The Great Depression, in the years 1919 to 1939
and includes quiz questions and answers
and video links to related topics.

I utilized World History: Patterns of Interaction (Holt McDougal) for our world history textbook. It has multiple options for different learning styles and covers a wide array of information.

This quiz accompanies Chapter 31: pages 894-921.

Directions for the quiz:

Scroll down and click on the thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
Choose an answer for each question.
Compare your answers with those provided.

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World History Week 31 Years of Crisis: 1919-1939

In the early 1900s, ___ theorized that space & time are relative
& hypothesized new ideas regarding time, space, energy, & matter.
Answer choices include: Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton,
George Washington Carver, Charles Darwin

The correct answer is Albert Einstein.

A popular theory by the 1920s, ___ developed theories about unconscious,
pleasure-seeking urges that lead people to irrational behavior
& inspired surrealism artists like Salvador Dali.
Answer choices include: Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie,
Sigmund Freud, Alexander Fleming

The correct answer is Sigmund Freud.

Jean Paul Sartre lead a movement called ___, the idea that
there is no universal meaning to life, leaving people to create their
own life meaning through choices/actions.
Answer choices include:
fatalism, optimism, pessimism, existentialism

The correct answer is existentialism.

Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque founded an art form called ___
in which artists transform natural shapes into
geometric forms with sharp angles & edges. Answer choices include:
Pop art, Cubism, photorealism, surrealism

The correct answer is Cubism.

What musical style led by African Americans emerged in the U.S.,
beginning in New Orleans, Memphis, & Chicago, after World War I?
Answer choices include: baroque, patriotic, hip hop, jazz

The correct answer is jazz.

Which of the following was FALSE about an increasing number of women of the 1920s? Answer choices include:
Some women wore shorter, looser garments & cut their hair shorter.
The number of women in medicine, education, & journalism decreased.
Women’s suffrage became law in Austria, Britain, Germany, Sweden, & the U.S.
Labor-saving devices to help with housework did not tend
to result in women having extra leisure time.

The correct answer is:
The number of women in medicine, education, & journalism decreased.

Automobile prices increased drastically after World War I.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is false.

Which of the following is FALSE regarding entertainment in the 1920s?
Answer choices include:
Radio broadcasting brought news, plays, & sporting events into people’s homes.
Ninety percent of all films were made in Europe & were a serious art form.
Charlie Chaplin was a comic who portrayed a lonely tramp.
Before the late 1920s, movies were silent and had no sound.

The correct answer is:
Ninety percent of all films were made in Europe & were a serious art form.

After World War I, Germany’s currency, called the mark,
was worth far less than it was worth before the war.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

During the Great Depression and specifically in 1933, what percent
of all American workers were unemployed?
Answer choices include: 5%, 10%, 25%, 50%

The correct answer is 25%.

Franklin D. Roosevelt began a governmental program called the ___
to help the country recover from the Great Depression.
Answer choices include: Raw Deal, Real Deal, Sealed Deal, New Deal

The correct answer is New Deal.

Which of the following is TRUE regarding fascism?
Answer choices include:
They believed that only peaceful nations would achieve success & sought to limit the military. They believed that individual rights were much more important than nationalism.
They sought a classless society in which all people were considered equal.
They wore uniforms of a certain color, used special salutes, and held mass rallies.

The correct answer is:
They wore uniforms of a certain color, used special salutes, and held mass rallies.

Which primary group of people became the scapegoat
(those who were blamed for all of Germany’s troubles) for Nazi ideology?
Answer choices include: Jews, Schutzstaffels, Aryans, Atheists

The correct answer is Jews.

___ was the only democracy that remained in eastern Europe by 1935.
Answer choices include: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania

The correct answer is Czechoslovakia.

In the 1930s, all major democracies were
members of the League of Nations EXCEPT ___. Answer choices include:
Great Britain, Japan, United States, Italy

The correct answer is United States.

Italy invaded ___ in 1935 in order to avenge a
previous defeat in that country.
Answer choices include:
Spain, Ethiopia, Equador, Sudan

The correct answer is Ethiopia.

Which of the following countries was NOT
part of the Axis Powers in 1936?
Answer choices include:
China, Japan, Italy, Germany

The correct answer is China.

___ is the belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided,
maintaining neutrality, particularly in times when other countries are at war.
Answer choices include: Marxism, Nationalism, Realism, Isolationism

The correct answer is isolationism.

Britain & France stepped in to help countries that were being oppressed
by Hitler and Mussolini numerous times in the early 1900s.
Answer choices are: true, false

The correct answer is false.

Germany and Russia publicly pledged never
to attack one another in 1939.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

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