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USH Semester 2 Unit 2--Great Depression & New Deal
USH Semester 2 Unit 2--Great Depression & New Deal
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This happened to people who could not make their home mortgage payments
Deficit spending
Foreclosure
Bank run
Dust Bowl
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This man promised a New Deal and was president during the Great Depression & WWII
FDR
Huey Long
Herbert Hoover
Andrew Jackson
3
Businesses & farmers could borrow large amounts of money in the 1920s because of
Falling demand
High tariffs
Stock market crash
Low interest rates
4
True or false: President Hoover believed the government should provide direct relief to people
False
True
5
This program made sure the elderly and people with disabilities receive a monthly payment
Social Security
CCC
WPA
FDIC
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True or false: the New Deal decreased the role of the federal government
True
False
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On this day, the stock market experienced an extreme dive
Black Friday
Red Monday
Groovy Tuesday
Black Tuesday
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Which New Deal program restored confidence in the banking system and prevented bank panics?
WPA
SSA
SEC
FDIC
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Which of the following is NOT one of the key causes of the Great Depression?
Low interest rates
Overproduction
High tariffs
Overconsumption
10
One approach the government took to get more people working
Sharecropping
Public works projects
Direct relief
Foreclosures
11
What was President Roosevelt's plan for getting the US out of the Great Depression?
FDR's Deal
New Deal
The Alphabet Agencies
Relief, Reform, Recovery Act
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What did New Deal programs WPA & CCC do?
Provide work for the unemployed
Provide direct relief to farmers
Insure bank deposits
Close down all banks
13
What best describes a way in which the Great Depression affected the lives of Americans?
Farmers & businessmen were hurt by rising crop prices
Many people moved from shantytowns to suburbs
Many people got married immediately after finishing school
Many children quit school to help their parents earn money
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What did banks that suffered significant losses have to do?
Shut down
Take a bank holiday
Approve more loans
Fire everybody
15
All of the following led to the 1929 stock market crash EXCEPT
large amounts of consumer debt
Buying on margin
New technology innovations
Speculation in the stock market
16
The flowering of African American culture in the 1920s
Hoovervilles
Flappers
Cotton Club
Harlem Renaissance
17
What led to the farmer financial crisis in the 1930s?
Farmers buying too many stocks
Locust plague
European demand for US products dropping
People moving out of the Great Plains
18
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the Dust Bowl?
Increased foreign demand for US products
Drought
Crop prices dropping
Poor farming techniques
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Many consumers were unable to purchase goods for this reason
Uneven distribution of wealth
Recession
Union strikes
Bull market