| US History Quiz Chapter 26 Name: __________________________________ Score: Teacher: Mr. Cap "The Great Depression" 1. Who won the Election of 1928 over Democrat Alfred E. Smith? _______________________________ 2. What was Hoover's Campaign Slogan ? __________________________________________________ 3. Knowing the two key issues in the Election of 1928, why was Alfred E. Smith defeated? ______________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What does it mean to buy stocks on margin? _______________________________________________ 5-7. List three Causes of Great Depression. _________________________________________________ 6. ______________________________________ 7. _________________________________________ 8. When was Black Tuesday? Month ________________ , day _________________ , year ___________ 9. Some men would leave their family responsibilities and become _____________________________ and live in _____________________________________ 10. 11. How did the Federal Reserve System accomplish exactly the opposite of what it was supposed to accomplish? __________________________________________________________________________ 12. How did the stock market crash cause Bank failures in the United States? _________________________ 13. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath ? _____________________________________________________ 14. Communists from Russia tried to use the movie, The Grapes of Wrath, as socialist propaganda. Why did it backfire? _____________________________________________________________________ 15. ______________________________________ was one of the bright spots during Hoover's administration. 16. Name 3 radio personalities during the 1930s. _______________________________________________ 17. Name three movies of the 1930s. ________________________________________________________ 18. What did Walt Disney create? __________________________________________________________ 19. What happened when Welles dramatized War of the Worlds? ___________________________________ 20. How could the Great Depression have been avoided? ________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ |