Practice Test

Question 1

By instituting government oversight on banks and investments, Franklin Roosevelt

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hoped to avoid another stock market crash.

Question 2

What did the Social Security Act of 1935 do?

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set up a fund for retired Americans

Question 3

Which best describes an unintended consequence of Prohibition?

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an increase in “medicinal alcohol”

Question 4

Which factor encouraged farmers to leave their land in the Great Plains during the 1930s?

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the necessity of escaping financial problems

Question 5

Why did Franklin Roosevelt’s Federal Emergency Relief Administration give grants to states, even though it cost more than giving money to individuals?

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States used the money to create jobs, which was better for morale than simply receiving money.

Question 6

A lasting effect of the New Deal can be seen when

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the government intervenes in a time of national crisis.

Question 7

In the consumer culture of the 1920s,

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people purchased nonessential goods on a regular basis.

Question 8

The main reason alcohol abuse caught the attention of the public in the early 1900s was an increase in

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the negative social effects of excessive drinking.

Question 9

During the 1930s, the large area of farmland experiencing droughts was known as

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the Dust Bowl.

Question 10

To buy goods on credit means to

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promise to pay for goods later.

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