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The Great Depression began in what year due to a major stock market crash?
1920
1929
1937
1945
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What is the colloquial name for the day in 1929 where the stock market crashed beginning the Great Depression?
White Monday
White Friday
Black Tuesday
Black Sunday
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What man was President of the United States during the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?
Harry Truman
Millard Fillmore
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
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The Great Depression caused people to resort to odd methods in order to survive. Some people reportedly started eating what animal which they called "Hoover hogs" as a knock against their president?
Weasels
Horses
Armadillos
Rats
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One of Hoover's biggest bungled attempts to fix the Depression came when he placed a tax on which of the following in a measure that caused people to start using more cash?
Credit card purchases
Gasoline
Checks
Wallets
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The Great Depression exacerbated the movement of Americans from southern farms up to northern cities because of how often farms foreclosed during this period. What is the name given to this period where southerners increasingly moved into northern cities?
The Great Leap Forward
The Dixie March
The Northern Sweep
The Great Migration
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The Great Depression was such a dreadful problem that it caused the global G.D.P. to drop by 15 percent between 1929 and 1932. What does the acronym G.D.P. stand for in matters of economics?
Gains-Devaluation Program
Garnered Dividends Production
Global Dollar Price
Gross Domestic Product
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The Great Depression caused a number of Americans to emigrate to their original homelands. What is the name of this famous Irish-American author who wrote the historic book Angela's Ashes to recount his family's struggle with the Depression both in the U.S. and in Ireland?
Donovan Dale
Frank McCourt
Oliver Egelin
Theodor Yale-Steward
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One of the key reasons for the Great Depression was the derailing progress of America's economy under what philosophy whose name means "Leave alone"?
Ludon Sol
Laissez-Faire
Li-Filudon
Kenul-Progra
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What American President succeeded Herbert Hoover and was the leader of the nation throughout most of the Great Depression?
Calvin Coolidge
Harry Truman
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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What was the collective name for the economic programs which Franklin Delano Roosevelt pursued to try and solve the Great Depression?
The New Deal
The Square Deal
The First Deal
The Patriots' Deal
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One of the most impactful measures of the New Deal was the creation of the F.D.I.C. which provided stability to what types of businesses?
Banks
Investment firms
Munitions factories
Automobile industries
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What is the name of the period during the Great Depression where the western United States experienced agricultural desolation as topsoil blew in the wind?
The Dust Bowl
The Scourge
The Wilds Winds
The Lost Age
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What is the name of the agricultural method of switching out the crops planted in a particular plot of land over multiple cycles which ended up helping to restore America's farmland from the Dust Bowl?
Agricycling
Crop rotation
Recharging
The Lorenzo Method
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt sparked a major controversy when he tried to oust his opponents within his own political party for not supporting his New Deal efforts. What was the political party of Roosevelt which he damaged in this way?
The Know-Nothing Party
The Bull Moose Party
The Democratic Party
The Republican Party
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What is the title of this famous photograph by Dorothea Lange which was snapped as a record of the suffering caused by the Great Depression?
Mrs. Kessler
The Days to Follow
Black Tuesday
Migrant Mother
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What is the name of the program created by the New Deal which hired young unmarried men to work on projects to cultivate and preserve natural resources?
The Army Reserve Homefront Committee
The Kubler Virginia Agency
The Civilian Conservation Corps
The Works of Talent Initiative
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Which of the following is a term for the shantytowns that homeless communities built en masse during the Depression?
Coolidge Cities
Truman Towns
Rooseveltons
Hoovervilles
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Another failed attempt by the government during the Hoover Administration to fix the Great Depression was what infamous tariff that caused the prices of goods in America to increase considerably?
The Benson-Dimn Tariff
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff
The Pinkney-Perking Tariff
The Clinton-Oppenheimer Tariff
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What New Deal agency created 8.5 million jobs for struggling Americans by hiring them to do infrastructure work?
The Works Progress Administration
The Charitable Employment Program
The Patriots' Efforts Program
The Sunday Labor Consolidation
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The recovery efforts of the Great Depression were largely based on what economic theory which emphasized that the total amount of spending within an economy helped determine most facets of economic health?
Telenfeld Economics
Laissez-Faire Economics
Keynesian economics
Smithian Economics
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What American author famously captured the disillusionment of the Great Depression in his books Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath?
John Steinbeck
Gary Ewles
Harper Heart
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What is the term for the period during the early Depression where the money supply drastically shrank as a result of banks liquidating assets?
The Tight Squeeze
The Shrinking Solution
The Great Contraction
The Wall Street Woes
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In general, Depression-era economics were defined by what economic occurrence which is the opposite of inflation and which is the result of the money supply shrinking as the relative value of a unit of currency increases?
Unflation
Exflation
Deflation
Reflation
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Since many of the programs established by the New Deal were known by acronym names, people collectively called these agencies which of the following?
The Alphabet Agencies
The Letter League
The Symbol Systems
The Abbreviation Acts
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What is the term for a system where a nation defines the value of its currency based on the amount of gold that nation has?
The Gilded Establishment
The Knox System
The Sterling Method
The Gold Standard
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What is the name of the New Deal Alphabet Agency which hired employees to provide infrastructure to rural and southern communities in the U.S.A.?
The Kentucky Ranger Corps
The Mississippi Bog Trotters
The Georgia Platoon
The Tennessee Valley Authority
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In 1935, the New Deal coalition created what social program that would provide income to retired American workers?
Medicare
Social Security
The Works Progress Association
The American Senior Fund
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After four straight years of slow economic recovery, the Great Depression struck back in the form of the Recession of what pair of years?
1931-1932
1940-1941
1929-1931
1937-1938
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Many historians claim that the outset of what war allowed America to escape the Great Depression by providing new economic opportunities?
World War Two
World War One
The American Civil War
The Persian Gulf War
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