What was created to regulate the stock market?

The Securities and Exchange Commission

What was an important effect of the New Deal?

The government took on new roles

What government program guarantees your money back if the bank fails?

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Bread lines were a result of what?

high unemployment and business failures

What was Roosevelt's Court-Packing Plan?

He wanted to replace judges who were 70 yrs old, replacing 6 at the time

What was the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck about?

farmers from Oklahoma who had to move to California due to the Dust Bowl

What was the purpose of the Gold Standard Act of 1934?

to stabilize the national economy

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1
What was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
Speculation
Overproduction
Shaky Bank Methods
Employment
2
What was created to regulate the stock market?
The FDIC
The Social Security Act
The Securities and Exchange Commission
The National Labor Relations Act
3
What was an important effect of the New Deal?
The government took on new roles
People were still unemployed
Americans wanted to impeach Roosevelt
The government believed in Rugged Individualism
4
What government program guarantees your money back if the bank fails?
Security and Exchange Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Works Program Administration
Social Securities Act
5
President Hoover supported Americans during the Great Depression
False
True
6
Bread lines were a result of what?
increase in agricultural exports
demand of military pensions
high unemployment and business failures
high population
7
What helped turn the Great Plains into the Dust Bowl in the 1930s?
Insects
Intense drought
Multiple Tornadoes
Extreme rain
8
What was Roosevelt's Court-Packing Plan?
He wanted to be a judge
He wanted to replace judges who were 70 yrs old, replacing 6 at the time
He wanted to replace ALL judges in the Supreme Court
He wanted to limit the number of judges in the Supreme Court
9
What was the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck about?
farmers from Oklahoma who had to move to California due to the Dust Bowl
Bank failures during the Great Depression
WWII
High unemployment
10
What was the purpose of the Gold Standard Act of 1934?
to increase government regulation
to end speculation in the stock market
to monitor savings accounts
to stabilize the national economy
11
The Federal Government expanded under the New Deal legislation
False
True
12
The Social Security Act benefited the elderly and unemployed
False
True

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