The Great Depression and New Deal

The main goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was to

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) tried to 

Provided public works jobs at $15 per week to 4 million workers

New Deal programs that provided retirement pensions to the elderly and disability payments 

New Deal programs that provided immediate financial help to people

The stock market crashed in 1929 because

Sent 250,000 young men to work in national parks and forests

The Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) ____ provide cash welfare payments from the government

Program that tried to enforce mandatory hiring and minimum wages on private businesses

Government money should go to help businesses so they could hire people

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Bank Holiday

He believed that the needy would become dependent on government welfare

He believed the American people demanded action IMMEDIATELY.

New Deal program still around today that insures all bank deposits up to $100,000

What is the point of this editorial cartoon?

What one word best describes the attitude of FDR?

FDR ordered all banks temporarily closed to stop bank runs; first thing he did as President

What were places like these called during the Great Depression?

During the early years of the Great Depression personal income

Thousands of WWI veterans came to Washington DC in 1932 to ask the government for

To solve the banking crisis FDR

The FDIC

Government money should go to needy people who were desperately poor

Government programs to provide relief, recovery, reform

Which of the following IS NOT an example of public works

The New Deal made the government 

Many historians believe that an important cause of the Great Depression was

New Deal programs designed to help the US economy get over the Depression

The Securities and Exchange Commission attempted to clean up

Provided workers to fight forest fires and maintain national park trails

The results of this Electoral College map show that

The Great Depression led to high unemployment as many businesses

Under the FERA, the federal government sent money to the states to help

He believed the government should not provide direct welfare payments to people who needed it

"Take a method and try it. If it doesn't work admit freely and try another. But try something"

New Deal law that gave workers right to organize unions and collectively bargain

Social Security

New Deal programs designed to clean up abuses in banking and the stock market

FDR's programs to fight the Great Depression were known as the 

Millions of Banks invest money in the stock market and loan money to stock speculators

The Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Built a series of dams and hydroelectric plants to provide electricity to the rural South

The Agricultural Adjustment Act helped raise farm prices by 

What does this picture from the 1930s show?

In the 10 years before the Great Depression the stock market experienced a

The Great Depression ended as a result of 

Formed as a temporary program to provide employment on public works projects

Which of the following WAS NOT a goal of the New Deal?

To boost American's moods during the Depression, FDR got rid of 

The most popular government program in 1935 it is still around today (Ask Grandma about it)

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"

He believed in the principle of voluntarism- letting private charities and people help the poor

A major criticism with New Deal programs was that these programs

Provided a small salary to unemployed young men and money for them to send home to families