Great Depression 1

Question 1

What is the name of the government backed retirement plan called?

Accepted Answer

Social Security Act

Question 2

Who took pictures of Americans that showed the Great Depression and Dust Bowl?

Accepted Answer

Dorthea Lange

Question 3

Who was president at the start of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Hoover

Question 4

What gave unions the right to collective bargaining?

Accepted Answer

Wagner Act

Question 5

What was Roosevelt's programs called provide relief, recovery, and reform?

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Question 6

Decine in world trade, bank failures, _____....all led to the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

overspeculation

Question 7

Bank failures, accounts wiped out, stock market crash...all describe

Accepted Answer

Great Depression

Question 8

Who advocated giving citizens over 65 an additional $200 a month to stimulate economy?

Accepted Answer

Francis Townsend

Question 9

What did the art, literature, and music depict during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

hard times

Question 10

Roosevelt's court-packing plan would give the ______ branch of gov't too much power.

Accepted Answer

executive

Question 11

Who (Catholic priest) wanted to the gov't to take over the banks?

Accepted Answer

Father Coughlin

Question 12

Which New Deal program brought electricity to rural America?

Accepted Answer

TVA

Question 13

What was Roosevelt's goal to increase the justices called?

Accepted Answer

Court-packing

Question 14

What was created to regulate the stock market?

Accepted Answer

Securities and Exchange Commission

Question 15

Who advocated taxing the rich in his "Share the Wealth" program?

Accepted Answer

Huey P. Long

Question 16

The stock market affected the _____ population; while the Dust Bowl affected ____ population.

Accepted Answer

urban; rural

Question 17

What year did the stock market crash?

Accepted Answer

1929

Question 18

What was the Supreme Court's reaction the National Industrial Recovery Act?

Accepted Answer

unconstitutional

Question 19

Put these in order: New Deal (1), Great Depression (2), WWI (3), Roaring 20s (4)

Accepted Answer

3, 4, 2, 1

Question 20

How did New Deal legislation impact the role of state and federal government?

Accepted Answer

extended federal govt

Question 21

What did governors declare to prevent bank runs?

Accepted Answer

bank holidays

Question 22

Who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"

Accepted Answer

John Steinbeck

Question 23

What affected the Great Plains region?

Accepted Answer

Dust Bowl

Question 24

What was the purpose of "Fireside chats?"

Accepted Answer

restore confidence during economic trouble

Question 25

Who had the idea of rugged individualism?

Accepted Answer

Hoover

Question 26

Why did WWI veterans march to Congress...

Accepted Answer

to get bonus early

Question 27

What was the purpose of the Works Progress Admnistration (WPA)?

Accepted Answer

build roads/buildings

Question 28

What did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation do?

Accepted Answer

insure bank deposits

Question 29

What happened to the unemployment rate during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

increased sharply

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