Unit 6: Great Depression and New Deal

The New Deal program, the Security and Exchange Commission, still regulates the stock market to prevent another crash.

The Civilian Conservation Corps put men 18-25 to work on a temporary basis. This is a ___________ program.

With the economy in crisis, what natural disaster affected the Great Plains region?

Which of the following is NOT true of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

Which vocab term is pictured?

What did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation do?

The FDIC was created to prevent future bank failures and still exists. It's an example of what type of New Deal program?

Which vocab term is pictured?

This New Deal program still provides income to the elderly and disabled.

What New Deal agency was created to regulate the stock market?

This amendment allowed alcohol to be sold again - the gov needed tax revenue.

Why did WWI veterans march to Congress?

What was Roosevelt's program to ease the Great Depression?

What was the initial purpose of FDR's "Fireside chats"?

What year did the stock market crash?

Bank failures, accounts wiped out, stock market crash...all describe

Approximately how many Americans were unemployed during the Great Depression?

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If the purpose of the Works Progress Administration was to provide immediate, temporary employment, it was

One of FDR's first acts in office, to determine whether a bank could stay in business?

What was the purpose of the Works Progress Admnistration (WPA)?

Midwesterners who migrated to California in search of work.

Who was president at the start of the Great Depression?

The Agricultural Adjustment Act helped keep farmers from losing their farms. This is _____________ program.

What was Roosevelt's plan to increase the number of Supreme Court justices?

How did New Deal legislation impact the role of state and federal government?