Great Depression and New Deal

Question 1

Phase of the business cycle where people stop buying and the business start to fire workers

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Contraction

Question 2

In order to deal with the crisis in banking at the time of his inauguration, Franklin Roosevelt

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declared a four-day "banking holiday"

Question 3

Created to regulate the stock market

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SEC

Question 4

During the worst time of the Depression unemployment was around what percent

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25

Question 5

Which best describes the Hundred Days?

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Congress passed many New Deal programs

Question 6

Paid farmers to grow less crops

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AAA

Question 7

Allowed workers to form unions and collectively bargain

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Wagner Act

Question 8

Created the insure bank deposits

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FDIC

Question 9

Critic who wanted to tax the wealthy to provide a minimum income to the poor

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Huey Long

Question 10

Phase of the Business Cycle when the economy is doing well because people have jobs

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Expansion

Question 11

Which of the following was a not an original program of Social Security

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Healthcare for the poor

Question 12

The fundamental failure of the New Deal was its

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inability to end unemployment.

Question 13

Which action of FDR's violated checks and balances

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his attempt to pack the Supreme Court.

Question 14

President blamed for the Depression because it was precieved that he did little to fix it

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Herbert Hoover

Question 15

Why did African Americans begin voting for the democratic party in the 1930s?

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African Americans benefitted from unemployment programs

Question 16

Which form of credit had a negative impact on the American economy in the 1930s?

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Installment purchases

Question 17

Which of the following was NOT a program that helped unemployment?

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FFF

Question 18

The New Deal represented a change in America as

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the federal government abandoned laissez-faire.

Question 19

Which of the following was not a cause of the Great Depression?

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A British Boycott of American Oil

Question 20

The power of this branch of government grew from the Depression

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Executive

Question 21

This caused stock prices to increase in bad companies

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speculation

Question 22

Phase of the business cycle where people start to buy products, businesses start to hire

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Recovery

Question 23

The New Deal was funded based on the idea that government spending could stimulate the economy

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Deficit Spending

Question 24

Nickname given to the towns built by homeless Americans in the 1930s

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Rooseveltowns, Hoovervilles

Great Depression and New Deal

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Great Depression and New Deal

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