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Module 26: The Great Depression
Module 26: The Great Depression
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Causes and attempts to solve economic crisis in the Great Depression.
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1
Two major events that FDR faced in his presidency were...
WWI and WWII
The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl
WWII and the Korean War
Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
2
This put almost three million young men to work building roads or parks, and planting trees?
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
Works Progress Administration
Glass Steagall Banking Act
3
This term refers to the Stock Market Crash of October 29, 1929?
Black Tuesday
Bloody Monday
Black Friday
Black Sunday
4
This president's name was part of the word for shantytowns during the depression?
Herbert Hoover
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
5
The Dust Bowl occurred in what region of the United States?
Northeast Coast
West Coast
Desert South West
Plains states
6
In 1932 these two candidates ran for President?
Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith
7
How many Justices did Roosevelt want to add to the Supreme Court?
6
2
8
4
8
This helped to create prosperity in a poverty stricken region by providing funds to build dams?
Civilian Conservation Corps
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal Securities Act
9
This president was known for his involvement in scandal with the teapot dome?
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
Dwight D. Eisenhower
10
How serious is Max Degen's ACL injury?
He needs surgury and months of rehab.
What's an ACL?
He just needs a little rest.
He's just making up the injury for sympathy.
11
Purchasing stocks on credit or with borrowed money is called __________.
Credit
Buying on Margin
Short Selling
Speculation
12
What is the term for buying a stock by paying a small % down and borrowing the remainder?
Credit
Price support
Speculation
Buying on Margin
13
Which New Deal program was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal Securities Act
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
National Industrial Recovery Act
14
Is Jenna Caputo chewing gum right now?
You betcha.
Duh.
Bet.
No. (Psych! Of course she is.)
15
Who wrote the novel "The Grapes of Wrath"?
Richard Wright
Woody Guthrie
Grant Wood
John Steinbeck
16
Which of the following pieces of legislation were found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?
Social Security Act
Wagner Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
Emergency Banking Relief Act
17
This Republican won the presidential election of 1928?
Ronald Reagan
Harry Truman
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
18
This is the period when unemployment skyrocketed for 1924 to 1940 and the economy plummeted?
Fabulous Eighties
Roaring Twenties
Recessive Seventies
The Great Depression
19
________ used music to express the hardships of American life during the Great Depression.
Woody Guthrie
Orson Welles
John Steinbeck
Elizabeth Taylor
20
President Roosevelt called his radio programs that informed Americans about the New Deal what?
Economic talks
Fireside Chats
Town Hall meetings
Inaugural Speaches
21
Roosevelt wanted to add a Supreme Court justice for every justice who was __________ years or older.
70
65
75
80
22
This is an arrangement in which consumers agree to buy now and pay later for purchases?
Credit
Speculation
Currency
Price Supports
