USHISTORYUNIT10REVIEW

President Roosevelt launched the bold new program known as the 2nd New Deal primarily because?

Why was President Roosevelt’s “court-packing plan” a serious mistake?

Taking on a mediating role among competing economic interests, the New Deal established what?

By 1934 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana began criticizing the New Deal and called for what?

Who hired workers directly, including women, to build/improve airports, roads and playgrounds?

Who sponsored the Federal Number One program for artists, musicians, actors and writers?

Why did stock prices first begin to decline in late 1929?

Why did the stock market crash weaken the nation’s banks?

The Social Security Act established the principle that federal government is responsible for?

What prohibited commercial banks from speculating on the stock market?

President Roosevelt triggered a new economic downturn in 1937 by what?

What required stock & bond companies to provide complete and truthful information to investors?

During the Depression, newly homeless people put up communities of shacks they called what?

In the 1930s, Americans preferred movies, radio programs and other forms of entertainment that?

Farmers on the Great Plains began to lose their crops during the Depression because of what?

The biggest drop of the 1929 stock market crash was called what?

According to the Sel. Serv. Act, the order which men were called to service was determined by

Who organized secret ballots at factories to see if workers wanted unions?

Who awarded contracts to construction companies to build highways, dams, schools, and more?

Migrants from the Great Plains heading west in search of better lives were called?

The result when the government spends more than it collects in taxes is called what?

Thousands of World War I veterans came to Washington, D.C. in 1932 to lobby Congress why?

Who wrote “The Grapes of Wrath”?

The payments Germany was required to make as punishment for starting the war were called

What was the stockbroker’s demand for immediate repayment of a loan used to buy stock called?

What caused industrial production to fall and was declared unconstitutional in 1935?

Who was the writer who showed what characters were thinking before they spoke?

Who was a painter of the 1930s who was part of the regionalist school?

Who offered young men work planting trees, fighting forest fires, and building reservoirs?

The method of loaning money to the government to pay for war is

The Depression affected the economy in the 1920s due to overproduction, high tariffs and what?

President Hoover hoped that increasing government funding for public works projects would what?

The New Deal established a new voting coalition for Pres. Roosevelt and the Democrats by?

Many depositors withdrawing their money at once is called what?

Who invested in stocks, betting the market would climb so they could make a quick profit?

Henry Ford was able to cut daily work hours and increase wages due to the success of

The British entered World War I when

Pres. Roosevelt entered office with no clear agenda or strong political ideology, but favored?

President Hoover opposed direct federal relief to the unemployed because he believed what?

To fight the Depression, the first thing that President Roosevelt set out to do was what?

What was set up in 1932 to allow the government to make loans to businesses?

What guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and bargain collectively?

What covered the money that people saved in banks against loss?

President Roosevelt’s policies for ending the Depression became known as what?

Who led the troops that dispersed the Bonus Army?

What was reluctantly signed by President Hoover to supply relief funds to states?