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AMH 2020 EXAM 2 FSU"To Revive Us Again": - correct answer ✔✔
Election of 1928 - correct answer ✔✔Herbert Hoover (Republican) beat Al Smith (Democrat, Catholic) by
a landslide
Herbert Hoover - correct answer ✔✔Republican, extremely qualified, millionaire, oil tycoon, Experience
in Legislative Branch
Al Smith - correct answer ✔✔Democrat opponent to Herbert Hoover in 1928 Election, Catholic, anti-
prohibition
Bank Runs - correct answer ✔✔Banks only keep a certain % of cash on hand, Groups of people would
storm in and demand their money (caused banks to fail faster)
Unemployment - correct answer ✔✔At peak of depression was 25%, 1.6 mil unemployed, reached 12.8
mil
Hoovervilles - correct answer ✔✔Settlements for poor unemployed people outside urban areas
Smoot Hawley Tariff Act (1930) - correct answer ✔✔Hoover Admin raised tariffs to promote American
business', made other countries raise their tariffs on US exports, Raised prices, hurts american
manufactures
Revenue Act of 1932 - correct answer ✔✔Raise taxes in order to balance budget, tax on all aspects of
society
Bonus March - correct answer ✔✔(1932)- 40,000 WW1 veterans marched on Washington in hope to
receive their war bonuses ahead of time (would get paid in 1940's), many camped in protest, led to
violence (55 injured, 135 arrested, 2 died)
, Election of 1932 - correct answer ✔✔FDR destroyed Hoover in election
When the Wind Comes Sweeping Down the Plains: - correct answer ✔✔
Dust Bowl - correct answer ✔✔Tractor and harvetor weakend soil, drought created dust, no weeds to
keep dust
Black Sunday - correct answer ✔✔April 15th 1935, worst. Displaced over 300 million tons of topsoil
Okies - correct answer ✔✔800,000 people left home states during dust bowl to go to cali, worked as
seasonal farmers, lacked money so set up camps on highways "little Oklahoma's"
Paul Bonnifield - correct answer ✔✔farmer, believed that the dust bowl was a natural disaster that
people had to endure, "builders of tomorrow"
Donald Worster - correct answer ✔✔Inevitable outcome of a culture that deliberately exploited the
land, human disaster caused by mankind.
- Greedy people
- Exploited the land
A Dollar is What I Need: - correct answer ✔✔FDR's First Two Terms
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - correct answer ✔✔President of US, Won elections of 32,36,40,44,
internationalist, Democrat,
Emergency Banking Relief Act - correct answer ✔✔1933, Banks closed for 4 days and FDR spoke on the
radio convincing citizens to deposit their money into banks and not just take it out
Fair Labor Standards Act - correct answer ✔✔1938, national min wage on $.40 per hour and max of 40
hr. work week
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