Unit 6: Great Depression and New Deal

This rebuilt dams and provided hydroelectric power to an impoverished region

Which is NOT an effect of the Great Depression:

Which was most responsible for creating new jobs and putting people back to work?

Shantytowns being referred as "Hoovervilles":

This term refers to making extremely risky business transactions on the chance of making quick or considerable profits

Which of the following describes a government system for giving payments or food to the poor?

What was the first major action FDR did as soon as he was president?

This provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses and aided people with disabilities, and poor mothers.

Presidential candidate match up 1932:

This provided for bank inspections by the Treasury department and a means to making federal loans to solid banks.

Created through the Glass-Stegall Banking Act of 1933- this protects deposits in the bank.

The Bonus Army was a group of unemployed veterans who wanted their bonds to mature ahead of time and in full.

Created under the Wagner Act, this continues to act as a mediator in disputes between unions and employers.

This paid farmers to lower production and, in some cases, to destroy crops, with the greater goal of raising crop prices

The SEC is meant to make sure Wall Street and stock traders are following the law.

The day the stock market crashed is known as Black Friday

This put hundreds of thousands of young, single men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and others

What reached new highs during Roosevelt's first administration?

During the Great Depression, the overall unemployment rate was about:

The 3 Rs of the Great Depression are: Relief/Reform/Rejuvenate

When you buy stocks on a margin:

Term that applies to the total market value of all the goods and services produced by a country in a certain time frame

Glass-Steagall Act made sure that banks would no longer invest carelessly into Wall Street

A period of intense activity at the beginning of FDR’s presidency during which the U.S. Congress passed 15 major laws

After the stock market crash, how did President Hoover TRY to help the economy?

This reduced the flow of goods into the United States and prevented other countries from trading with America

One long term effect of the Great Depression was that many people

This was created to reform, and to restore confidence in, the stock market by providing a means to monitor the market.

The Bonus Army was comprised of:

Which was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

 Which was NOT a cause of the Dust Bowl

Herbert Hoover’s approach to the Depression economy was based on:

A main objective of the Agricultural Adjustment Act: