Chapters 18 and 19 Great Depression and New Deal

Question 1

During the Depression, most people were able to enjoy which two popular forms of entertainment?

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movies and radio

Question 2

Buying on margin was a method of buying stocks

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with mostly borrowed money

Question 3

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

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Hoovervilles

Question 4

During the depression, charities set up __________ to give poor people meals.

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soup kitchens

Question 5

People turned to the movies and radio in the 1930’s to

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escape their troubles

Question 6

In search of work or a better life, many unemployed people

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Rode the rails

Question 7

What did President Roosevelt introduce to help retirees?

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Social Security Act

Question 8

By establishing safeguards and relief programs that protected them against economic disaster, the New Deal created

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a safety net for Americans

Question 9

Why did the stock market crash in 1929?

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Investors lost confidence in the market and started to sell their shares

Question 10

Gave unemployed men between 18-25 an opportunity to work manual labor jobs related to conservation & natural resources

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Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 11

The Stock market took its steepest dive on October 29th, 1929, the day known as

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Black Tuesday

Question 12

One program of the Works Progress Administration, called Federal Number One, employed

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people in the arts

Question 13

________ invested in stocks, betting that the market would continue to climb so that they could make a quick profit

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Speculators

Question 14

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

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a terrible drought dried the soil

Question 15

A bank holiday was declared to prevent a run on banks which is

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depositors, fear the bank can't repay their deposits & withdraw their $

Question 16

Roosevelt created the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to

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regulate the stock market

Question 17

Critics disapproved of the Tennessee Valley Authority because

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private companies couldn't compete with the government

Question 18

Wagner Act - union members complain about an employer to a neutral party who would listen to both sides & decide outcome

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binding arbitration

Question 19

To pay for New Deal programs, FDR abandoned a balanced budget and began using

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deficit spending

Question 20

If it passed, the “court packing” bill would have allowed President Roosevelt to

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appoint up to six new justices

Questions 20