Duplicate of American History Chapter 7 Non-picture Review

This failed because businesses and citizens acted in their individual best interests.

What did Roosevelt and Congress pass the day after FDR’s inauguration?

President when the stock market crashed.

What happened to the stock market when investors lost confidence and rushed to sell shares?

What group experienced an early depression in the 1920s?

Roosevelt created the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to

The Agricultural Adjustment Act helped farmers because it

Federal troops used tear gas and bayonets on this group of protestors.

FDR set aside 12 million acres of land for

Periodic expansion and contraction of the economy.

Unemployment rate among African Americans was...

Investors sold more than 16 million shares of stock on what has become known as?

Farmers contributed to the problems that led to the Dust Bowl by...

Agriculture workers who work on land owned by someone else.

President Hoover believed that the economy suffered from a lack of credit so he created the?

Some opponents of the New Deal believed that it

The rich giving more charitable contributitons was part of a policy known as...

What is depicted in the photo below?

Government efforts to encourage or pressure Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico.

How many terms did Roosevelt serve as president?

Theory that money invested in banks and businesses will work its way to the people.

Which of the following extended job opportunities to Mexican Americans and other minority youth?

Dust Bowl refugees who moved westward to find work.

Risky stock purchases made by investors with the hope of high returns.

WWI veterans who marched to demand payment of money promised by Congress.

Why did many Americans seek new leadership in 1932?

People likely abandoned their farms during the Dust Bowl because...

What factor contributed to the plight of rural farmers?

General who dispersed protestors in the capital by ordering federal troops to use tear gas.

This was created to loan money to banks so they could lend to businesses to help the economy.

During the 20s the U.S. was experiencing which phase of the "business cycle"?

Stock market crash.

One way that Americans escaped their concerns during the 1930s was to

The U.S. raising tarrifs on foreign imports was a factor that helped spread the Depression...

The American Liberty League (ALL) formed to

European countries reacted to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff by...

This man responded cautiously to the Depression because he thought it would correct itself.

Whose tight monetary policy reduced the money supply, which limited amount of $ in circulation?

Where was the destination of most Dust Bowl migrants?

What were the goals of the New Deal?