A People's History of the Great Depression

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1. According to Howard Zinn, in the 1920s one tenth of 1 percent of families received as much income as what percent of all other families? 31 3 26 42

2. As Zinn states "Few political figures spoke out for the poor of the twenties". Zinn talks about one of the few that did. He was a Congressman for the immigrants of East Harlem who stated "I asked for your help and you send me a bulletin. The people of New York cannot feed their children on Department bulletins". Can you name this Congressman who has an airport named for him? Fiorello La Guardia John Foster Dulles William Jardine E.L. Logan

3. Which is NOT true about the Mellon plan? The bill passed. The Secretary of the Treasury at the time was Andrew Mellon. It didn't lower taxes for the top income bracket. It lowered taxes for the lowest income group.

4. Zinn discusses John Galbraith, who studied the reasons behind the speculation leading to the crash in 1929. What did he say was behind the speculation? "the government did not supplement industry" "the economy was fundamentally unsound" "taxes were not enough for the economy" "the government was funadementally unsound"

5. Who stated in 1931 "the average man won't do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it". He than proceeded less than a week later to lay of 75,000 of his employees. Andrew Mellon John Rockefeller Henry Ford Herbert Hoover

6. In 1931 there was much food and clothes in warehouses, as well as lots of empty homes. True False

7. What were the 20,000 who in 1932 came to Washington DC and camped across the Potomac River from the Capitol demanding? Franklin D Roosevelt get elected. That the government buy their land. Impeachment of all the politicians. Congress pay off their bonus certificates.

8. Which of the following was NOT true about Franklin D Roosevelts's National Recovery Act? It favored big business. There was a book written about it called "The Failure of the NRA" It was part of Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal. The Supreme Court found it unconstitutional in January 1933.

9. In 1934 "boot leggers" who were illegally mining coal in Pennsylvania were all successfully prosecuted. True False

10. What gave unions legal status? NRA A direct order from Franklin D Roosevelt. Creation of the National Labor Relations Board. TVA