Duplicate of Unit 6: Great Depression and New Deal

Question 1

What was created to regulate the stock market?

Accepted Answer

Securities and Exchange Commission

Question 2

What was Roosevelt's goal to increase the justices called?

Accepted Answer

Court-packing

Question 3

What is the name of the government backed retirement plan called?

Accepted Answer

Social Security Act

Question 4

What did governors declare to prevent bank runs?

Accepted Answer

bank holidays

Question 5

What did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation do?

Accepted Answer

insure bank deposits

Question 6

A program that offers direct assistance to individuals-

Accepted Answer

relief

Question 7

What year did the stock market crash?

Accepted Answer

1929

Question 8

Roosevelt's court-packing plan would give the ______ branch of gov't too much power.

Accepted Answer

executive

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

Great Depression

Question 10

Which New Deal program brought electricity to rural America?

Accepted Answer

TVA

Question 11

Decine in world trade, bank failures, _____....all led to the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

overspeculation

Question 12

What happened to the unemployment rate during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

increased sharply

Question 13

What affected the Great Plains region?

Accepted Answer

Dust Bowl

Question 14

Which program employed workers to build damns and electric lines in the Deep South?

Accepted Answer

TVA

Question 15

A program that focus on reviving the economy

Accepted Answer

recovery

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

extended federal govt

Question 17

What will you make on this test?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

build roads/buildings

Question 19

Who advocated taxing the rich in his "Share the Wealth" program?

Accepted Answer

Huey P. Long

Question 20

Put these in order: New Deal (1), Great Depression (2), WWI (3), Roaring 20s (4)

Accepted Answer

3, 4, 2, 1

Question 21

What was Roosevelt's programs called provide relief, recovery, and reform?

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Question 22

Who was president at the start of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Hoover

Question 23

What was the purpose of "Fireside chats?"

Accepted Answer

restore confidence during economic trouble

Question 24

The stock market affected the _____ population; while the Dust Bowl affected ____ population.

Accepted Answer

urban; rural

Question 25

What did the art, literature, and music depict during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

hard times

Question 26

A program that enacts changes to prevent a crisis in the future

Accepted Answer

reform

Duplicate of Unit 6: Great Depression and New Deal

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Duplicate of Unit 6: Great Depression and New Deal

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