50 tests on a topic “The literature of Great Depression: John Steinbeck, E. Caldwell

public panic caused by the bank failures.

collapse of agriculture.

problem of widespread unemployment.

deflationary spiral that had crippled business.

30. 
    The Twenty-first Amendment, ratified in 1933, repealed the
    

1. 
   progressive income tax.
   
2. 
   poll tax, literacy test, and other discriminatory voting restrictions.
   
3. 
   prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
   
4. 
   "quota system" of immigration limitations.
   

31. 
    Initial implementation of the Agricultural Adjustment Act in 1933 was controversial because
    

1. 
   it involved large-scale destruction of existing crops and livestock to reduce surpluses.
   
2. 
   it required farmers to boost agricultural production.
   
3. 
   it outlawed the practices of farm tenancy and sharecropping.
   
4. 
   it favored the interests of small farmers over those of large farmers.
   

32. 
    Of greatest impact on large numbers of poor farmers was a New Deal program to
    

1. 
   provide payments for reduced production in the interest of soil conservation.
   
2. 
   help irrigate and reclaim marginal lands for cultivation.
   
3. 
   provide loans for resettlement.
   
4. 
   make electric power available through utility cooperatives.
   

33. 
    Which of the following provisions was NOT included in the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933?
    

1. 
   trade association agreements on pricing and production
   
2.