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The Great Depression
The Great Depression
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Spoiler alert...it was depressing
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1
The Agricultural Adjustment Act was an attempt to
Help farmers get better prices for their crops.
Help farmers get loans to expand their farms.
Teach farmers to work in factories.
Teach farmers new technology.
2
Some criticized the New Deal because
it didn't help the elderly.
created a large number of government agencies and spending.
expanded the Supreme Court.
ended collective bargaining.
3
How did FDR solve the banking crisis?
Established the FDIC
Closed the stock market
A "Bank Holiday" & passed Emergency Banking Relief Act
Told Americans to remove their money from the banks
4
Which social group faced hard times even before the 1930s?
Investors
Consumers
Bankers
Farmers
5
A time when a union negotiates with management for workers' benefits.
Public Works Programs
Collective Bargaining
New Deal
Strike
6
Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
Stock Certificates being used as currency
High tariffs
Buying on Margin
Overproduction
7
Which New Deal program was designed to prevent people from losing their life savings in banks?
Works Progress Administration
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Social Security Administration
National Recovery Administration
8
Who was the main character in this film?
Jimmy Braddock
Rocky Balboa
Joe Lewis
Russell Crowe
9
What's the cartoonist's main point?
Hooverville had its own newspaper.
Hoovervilles didn't exist during the Depression.
Poor people enjoyed living in Hooverville.
Hoover was not acknowledging the Depression was a problem.
10
Was this cartoonist a critic or supporter of FDR?
A doctor
Who was FDR?
Critic
Supporter
11
Who are these men?
Coolidge and Hoover
Hoover and FDR
Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt
Truman and FDR
12
Roosevelt's most trusted advisers were called the
Tammany Ring
Big Four
Brain Trust
Kitchen Cabinet
13
Where was the Dust Bowl?
The Great Plains
The Pacific Coast
The Great Basin
The Atlantic Coast
14
What is this?
A Hooverville
A Homeless Shelter
A Soup Kitchen
People at Walmart on Black Friday
15
A share of ownership in a corporation is called a
Dividend
Certificate of Deposit
Bond
Stock
16
Spending more money than the government brings in from taxes.
The New Deal
Tariffs
Deficit spending
Collective bargaining
17
Which New Deal agency was set up to provide unemployment insurance and pensions for retirees?
The National Recovery Administration
The Social Security Administration
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The Works Progress Administration
18
This novel by John Steinbeck was influential in drawing attention to which social problem?
Tenement Life
The Dust Bowl
Child Labor
Hoovervilles
19
Which was NOT one of Roosevelt's New Deal goals?
Recovery
Reform
Relief
Reduce
20
The beginning of FDR's presidency when many laws were passed
The Fireside Chats
The Hundred Days
The Bank Holidays
The New Deal Period
21
The President of the US during the stock market crash of 1929 was
Franklin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
22
Who made up the "Bonus Army"?
Retired people
WWI Veterans
Men from Hoovervilles
Labor union members
23
Roosevelt's radio programs were called
Travels with FDR
State of the Union Addresses
Public Works Programs
Fireside Chats
24
When the government hires workers to build schools, highways, or playgrounds, these are
Consumer Programs
Public Works Projects
The W.P.A.
Welfare Programs
25
She acted as FDR's "eyes and ears" while traveling.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mary McLeod Bethune
Francis Perkins
