Which statement below is true about South Carolina during the 1920s?

SC had been in depression before the stock market crashed.

What was the New Deal?

a program to bring relief, recovery and reform

They built schools, libraries and courthouses as well as U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.

Public Works Administration (PWA)

_____employed over 50,000 of SCs young men in reforestation and in building state parks

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

___built highways,airports,bridges, playgrounds,hospitals & schools Employed artists & writers.

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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8.5.P One: The Great Depression and the New Deal

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1
Which statement below is true about South Carolina during the 1920s?
SC was economically strong during the Great Depression.
SC had been in depression before the stock market crashed.
South Carolina was not impacted by the Great depression.
SC’s depression occurred many years after the crash.
2
During the Great Depression, about how many South Carolinians were unemployed?
About one third
About one half
About one tenth
About one quarter
3
What was the New Deal?
a program to bring relief, recovery and reform
a program to establish more government control, and reform
a program to increase taxes, regulation and reform
a program to build weapons, and prepare for war
4
Which statement describes the economic conditions after the stock market crash?
More banks failed and some textile mills closed their doors.
Farmers foreclosed on their land and a railroad bankrupted.
all of these
Unemployment rose and people had no money to spend.
5
What 1932 presidential candidate promised he would bring a "New Deal" to the American people?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Herbert C. Hoover
Harry S. Truman
6
They built schools, libraries and courthouses as well as U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Rural Electrification Act
Social Security Act
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
7
_____employed over 50,000 of SCs young men in reforestation and in building state parks
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Social Security Act
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
8
___built highways,airports,bridges, playgrounds,hospitals & schools Employed artists & writers.
Social Security Act
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
9
Which statement is true regarding the New Deal job creation programs?
They failed to put people to work.
They put many people to work.
They brought economic recovery.
They put everyone to work.
10
Created to provide protection for the elderly, the orphaned, the disabled and the unemployed.
the Santee Cooper Act
the Rural Electrification Act
the Security Bureau Act
the Social Security Act

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