THE AMERICAN YAWP CHAPTER 23 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
2026
"Black Tuesday" - Answers the stock market began its long precipitous fall
Deeper Causes of the Depression - Answers weak banking systems and public panic
Smoot-Hawley Tariff - Answers the highest tariff in American history (VERY BAD IDEA)
Federal Reserve actions - Answers
Associationalism - Answers a system of voluntary action called "Associationalism" that assumed
Americans could maintain a web of voluntary cooperative organizations dedicated to providing
economic assistance and services to those in need. Businesses, the thinking went, would willingly limit
harmful practice for the greater economic good. To Hoover, direct government aid would discourage
a healthy work ethic while Associationalism would encourage the very self-control and self-initiative
that fueled economic growth
Reconstruction Finance Corporation - Answers emergency loans to banks, building-and-loan societies,
railroads, and other private industries; bypassed needy Americans to bolster industrial and financial
interests
"Hoovervilles" - Answers makeshift towns, usually on the edge of cities
POUR - Answers Hoover established the President's Organization for Unemployment Relief, or POUR,
to help organize the efforts of private agencies. While POUR urged charitable giving, charitable relief
organizations were overwhelmed by the growing needs of the many multiplying unemployed,
underfed, and unhoused Americans. By mid-1932, for instance, a quarter of all of New York's private
charities closed: they had simply run out of money.
Bonus Army - Answers 15,000 unemployed veterans and their families
Dust Bowl - Answers rolling winds churned the dust into massive storms that blotted out the sky,
choked settlers and livestock, and rained dirt
Tragic Scenes - Answers Hoover established the President's Organization for Unemployment Relief, or
POUR, to help organize the efforts of private agencies. While POUR urged charitable giving, charitable
relief organizations were overwhelmed by the growing needs of the many multiplying unemployed,
underfed, and unhoused Americans. By mid-1932, for instance, a quarter of all of New York's private
charities closed: they had simply run out of money.
Dorothea Lange - Answers In the photograph a young mother stares out with a worried, weary
expression. She was a migrant, having left her home in Oklahoma to follow the crops to the Golden
State. She took part in what many in the mid-1930s were beginning to recognize as a vast migration of
families out of the southwestern plains states. In the image she cradles an infant and supports two
older children, who cling to her. Lange's photo encapsulated the nation's struggle. The subject of the
photograph seemed used to hard work but down on her luck, and uncertain about what the future
might hold.
"Okies" - Answers westward migrants
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Answers oversaw the rise of the Depression and drew from progressivism to
address the economic crisis
Frances Perkins - Answers the nation's first female Secretary of Labor
"Brain Trust" - Answers team of advisors,academics and experts
Bank Holiday - Answers closing American banks and set to work pushing the Emergency Banking Act
swiftly through Congress
Glass-Steagall Act - Answers instituted federal deposit insurance and barred the mixing of commercial
and investment banking
Agricultural Adjustment Act - Answers aimed to raise the prices of agricultural commodities (and
hence farmers' income) by offering cash incentives to voluntarily limit farm production
National Industrial Recovery Act - Answers created the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in
June 1933, suspended antitrust laws to allow businesses to establish "codes" that would coordinate
prices, regulate production levels, and establish conditions of employment
Civilian Conservation Corps - Answers employed young men on conservation and reforestation
projects
Works Progress Administration - Answers put unemployed men and women to work on projects
designed and proposed by local governments
Huey Long - Answers "Share Our Wealth" program; populist rhetoric appealed those who saw deeply
rooted but easily addressed injustice in the nation's economic system
2026
"Black Tuesday" - Answers the stock market began its long precipitous fall
Deeper Causes of the Depression - Answers weak banking systems and public panic
Smoot-Hawley Tariff - Answers the highest tariff in American history (VERY BAD IDEA)
Federal Reserve actions - Answers
Associationalism - Answers a system of voluntary action called "Associationalism" that assumed
Americans could maintain a web of voluntary cooperative organizations dedicated to providing
economic assistance and services to those in need. Businesses, the thinking went, would willingly limit
harmful practice for the greater economic good. To Hoover, direct government aid would discourage
a healthy work ethic while Associationalism would encourage the very self-control and self-initiative
that fueled economic growth
Reconstruction Finance Corporation - Answers emergency loans to banks, building-and-loan societies,
railroads, and other private industries; bypassed needy Americans to bolster industrial and financial
interests
"Hoovervilles" - Answers makeshift towns, usually on the edge of cities
POUR - Answers Hoover established the President's Organization for Unemployment Relief, or POUR,
to help organize the efforts of private agencies. While POUR urged charitable giving, charitable relief
organizations were overwhelmed by the growing needs of the many multiplying unemployed,
underfed, and unhoused Americans. By mid-1932, for instance, a quarter of all of New York's private
charities closed: they had simply run out of money.
Bonus Army - Answers 15,000 unemployed veterans and their families
Dust Bowl - Answers rolling winds churned the dust into massive storms that blotted out the sky,
choked settlers and livestock, and rained dirt
Tragic Scenes - Answers Hoover established the President's Organization for Unemployment Relief, or
POUR, to help organize the efforts of private agencies. While POUR urged charitable giving, charitable
relief organizations were overwhelmed by the growing needs of the many multiplying unemployed,
underfed, and unhoused Americans. By mid-1932, for instance, a quarter of all of New York's private
charities closed: they had simply run out of money.
Dorothea Lange - Answers In the photograph a young mother stares out with a worried, weary
expression. She was a migrant, having left her home in Oklahoma to follow the crops to the Golden
State. She took part in what many in the mid-1930s were beginning to recognize as a vast migration of
families out of the southwestern plains states. In the image she cradles an infant and supports two
older children, who cling to her. Lange's photo encapsulated the nation's struggle. The subject of the
photograph seemed used to hard work but down on her luck, and uncertain about what the future
might hold.
"Okies" - Answers westward migrants
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Answers oversaw the rise of the Depression and drew from progressivism to
address the economic crisis
Frances Perkins - Answers the nation's first female Secretary of Labor
"Brain Trust" - Answers team of advisors,academics and experts
Bank Holiday - Answers closing American banks and set to work pushing the Emergency Banking Act
swiftly through Congress
Glass-Steagall Act - Answers instituted federal deposit insurance and barred the mixing of commercial
and investment banking
Agricultural Adjustment Act - Answers aimed to raise the prices of agricultural commodities (and
hence farmers' income) by offering cash incentives to voluntarily limit farm production
National Industrial Recovery Act - Answers created the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in
June 1933, suspended antitrust laws to allow businesses to establish "codes" that would coordinate
prices, regulate production levels, and establish conditions of employment
Civilian Conservation Corps - Answers employed young men on conservation and reforestation
projects
Works Progress Administration - Answers put unemployed men and women to work on projects
designed and proposed by local governments
Huey Long - Answers "Share Our Wealth" program; populist rhetoric appealed those who saw deeply
rooted but easily addressed injustice in the nation's economic system
