Test #3- Great Depression & New Deal

What was the unemployment rate at the height of the Great Depression?

What was the name of the drought in the Mid West that made many farmers move in search of jobs?

What were the shanty towns called that housed the homeless of the Great Depression?

What is the FDIC?

This program provides payments to people who cannot support themselves

Who was Roosevelt's critic that created the Share Our Wealth Program?

What are the defining characteristics of the Great Depression?

How did the New Deal change the size of the government?

Increased incentives to produce, by rebuilding purchasing power

How is the New Deal similar to the policies of the Progressive Era?

Hoover believed that people should rely on themselves which he called

What did Hoover think of the Great Depression?

Migrant farmers escaping the Dust Bowl fled to this state...

What can you do to be ready for Thursday's test?

This put millions to work building things like airports, roads, and public buildings.

One long-range effect of the Great Depression was that many people?

Who was elected president in 1932?

A measure that that gives the people hope in the American government again (FDIC)

New Deal Legislation that hired single men to plant trees and establish national parks

Which was NOT an effect of the Great Depression?

What was one result of the Tennessee Valley Authority?

What did the Federal Housing Administration do?

What is the economic situation where people do not have money to purchase items?

What were two causes of debt?

This was the most widely used barometer of the stock market's health.

Economic measures passed to help with reform during the Great Depression.

What was the first major action that FDR took as president?

This legislation/law expanded the Great Depression worldwide

What DID not happen to the people after the Great Crash?

How much money was lost in a week initiating the stock market crash?

One of the major causes of the stock market crash of 1929 was

New Deal policy that created jobs and hydroelectricity in underdeveloped areas.

Hoover differed from Roosevelt in his response to the Great Depression because Hoover believed?

What was the nickname of the day the Stock Market Crashed? October 29, 1929

Which of the following was NOT a main cause of the Great Depression?

Which Second New Deal policy states that government could not intervene in efforts to unionize?

Who was the President when the Great Depression began?

Which was most directly responsible for creating jobs and putting people back to work?

This provided direct relief in the form of food and clothing to the neediest people...

What is it called to engaged in risky stock transactions?

This program tried to help farmers

Spending more money than the government receives is known as this.

Which is a long term effect of the Great Depression?

What is the condition in which the production of goods exceeds the demand for them?

What was the New Deal Policy that helped bring prices in agriculture back up?

How does the U.S. government respond to the Great Depression?

What event would eventually end the Great Depression?

Paying a small amount of a stock price and borrowing the rest.

What was one effect of the Wagner Act?

During the Great Depression, high ____ discouraged international trade.

Short term actions to tide people over

What is Bankruptcy?

Which of the following is NOT one of FDR's new deal Programs.

Relief, Recovery, and Reform were the goals of which President to help people during the GD

Which of these was the primary cause of the Dust Bowl?

These were places where many would go during the depression to receive free food.

What was the name of WWI vets that marched on DC to demand payment of their war bonuses?