The Video Quiz 1 Answers

Well, most of you did not do very well (seriously, some of you answered that the president was affiliated with the Communist Party*) and have requested the answers, so I'll post them up here for you. Next time we have a video to watch in class, WATCH IT. You don't have to take notes, but you will be tested on the information. I'll try and get links to each video posted on this site, but the quizzes may or may not be on the same day as the initial viewing. So pay attention! First period really isn't a study period, it's AcaDec time there as well.

Many of you have also requested that the quizzes be multiple choice in the future. Well, we could do that and I probably will make a few like that in the future. But the harder the quizzes are now, the easier the test in January will be. Also, the test in January is going to be on stuff you will have studied for months. The quizzes that I am making are to make sure you know the information you have just been given, because we still have a whole lot of ground to cover.

Remember: next year, we are snatching that cup away from Lodi. Victory will be ours. Our goal is to beat those rich kids and advance onto state competition (and at least make the first page of the results [cough cough Lodi: page 2, 42nd of 62 cough cough]**). Those seniors will remember our young sophomore faces and die a little (because they're insignificant compared to our awesomeness, not because we're ugly).


Anyways, here is the promised answer key (I'm not providing the questions, just the answers):

Video Pop Quiz 1 Answer Key

1) Over-production, the Dust Bowl, Stock Market Crash

2) Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) was the president of the United States at the beginning of the Depression. He was a Republican.

3) Republicans controlled the newspapers at the time. They chose to report news about what was going well, instead of the bad news. Bad news, to them, meant that something was wrong with Hoover’s Republican administration.

4) Hoover called in the Red Cross to help feed farmers. The Red Cross distributed boxes of garden seeds for the farmers to grow their own food, instead of buying it.

5) Charles Floyd was also known as “Pretty Boy” Floyd. He evaded arrest by robbing towns hundreds of miles apart from each other and seeking refuge with farmers who would gladly help him out for a few dollars.

6) People underestimated his political abilities due to his handicap (he was paralyzed in his legs).

7) Veterans from World War I began to flood into Washington D. C. to receive their pay for serving in the war. They were promised pay in 1945, but they wanted their money with a bonus immediately. They came to be known popularly as the Bonus Army.

8) The Communist party began to claim that the movement was their idea, although they had very little to do with the veterans.

9) The bill to give the veterans their pay early was passed in the House of Representatives, but rejected by the Senate.***

10) “…. Rich and Poor.”


If any of you have received your letters from the school about the CST schedule for April 26-29, it tells you to bring a book to read in case you finish the test early. Try and find a resource about the Great Depression to read! I'm sure there are a bunch in the library (that's just two blocks away) that you could grab, and maybe even some with lots of pretty pictures (of failed crops and upset masses)! The more back ground information you know, the easier the quizzes will be.


*A Communist as President of a democracy? Because you learned nothing in World History, right?
**http://www.academicdecathlon.org/scores/state2010SummaryResults.pdf
***I made the quiz according to what we watched. If you later went on and watched the rest of the video, I marked you down because as far as we are concerned, it never happened.