The Great Depression and New Deal

Formed as a temporary program to provide employment on public works projects

In the 10 years before the Great Depression the stock market experienced a

The FDIC

Built a series of dams and hydroelectric plants to provide jobs & electricity to the rural South

The results of this 1932 Electoral College map show that

Provided public works jobs at $15 per week to 4 million workers

Government money should go to help businesses so they could hire people

What is the point of this editorial cartoon?

Provided workers (young men 18-25) to fight forest fires and maintain national park trails

The Great Depression ended as a result of 

What were places like these called during the Great Depression?

He believed the American people demanded action IMMEDIATELY.

The stock market crashed in 1929 because

He believed that the needy would become dependent on government welfare

New Deal programs that provided immediate financial help to people

He believed in "voluntarism" - letting private charities and people help the poor--not the federal government so much

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) tried to 

What one word best describes the attitude of FDR?

A major criticism with New Deal programs was that these programs

What does this picture from the 1930s show?

The most popular government program in 1935 it is still around today (Ask Grandma about it)

Many historians believe that an important cause of the Great Depression was

FDR's programs to fight the Great Depression were known as the 

He believed the government should not provide direct welfare payments to people who needed it

Which of the following WAS NOT a goal of the New Deal?

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"

The main goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was to

The Great Depression led to high unemployment as many businesses

New Deal program still around today that insures all bank deposits up to $100,000

Under the FERA, the federal government sent money to the states to help

During the early years of the Great Depression personal income

The New Deal made the government 

"Take a method and try it. If it doesn't work admit freely and try another. But try something"

Program that tried to enforce mandatory hiring and minimum wages on private businesses

Millions of Banks invested money in the stock market and loaned money to stock speculators "on margin."

New Deal program type designed to help the US economy get over the Depression

New Deal programs designed to clean up abuses in banking and the stock market

The Securities and Exchange Commission attempted to clean up

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

FDR ordered all banks temporarily closed to stop bank runs; first thing he did as President

To boost American's moods during the Depression, FDR got rid of 

At beginning of Great Depression, 1000s of WWI veterans came to Washington DC in 1932 to ask the President Hoover for

The Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) ____ provide cash welfare payments from the government

New Deal programs that provided retirement pensions to the elderly and disability payments 

Sent 250,000 young men to work from camping sites in national parks and forests to plant trees and build trails

New Deal law that gave workers right to organize unions and collectively bargain

The WW1 vets who marched on Washington to get the money promised by the federal government were called the

The Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Which of the following IS NOT an example of public works

The Agricultural Adjustment Act helped raise farm prices by