Gr 8: Chapter 25: The Great Depression: PGA

Question 1

What did the TVA do?

Accepted Answer

built dams, provided hydroelectricity

Question 2

What ended the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

WWII

Question 3

What did Hoover do when the Bonus Army refused to leave?

Accepted Answer

ALL of the Above

Question 4

What was the purpose of Fireside Chats?

Accepted Answer

reassure Americans

Question 5

Insured bank deposits...

Accepted Answer

FDIC

Question 6

What was the new type of strike that General Motors adapted?

Accepted Answer

Sit downs

Question 7

Which was not a factor of the Dust Bowl?

Accepted Answer

none of the above

Question 8

Nation's first female Cabinet member ...

Accepted Answer

Frances Perkins

Question 9

What did the farmers from the Dust Bowl find on their arrival to their new state?

Accepted Answer

little work, not wanted

Question 10

Another word for a deep, long-lasting recession ...

Accepted Answer

depression

Question 11

Which were contributing factors to the Dust Bowl?

Accepted Answer

high winds, over plowing/overgrazing, drought

Question 12

Created jobs for single, unemployed young men ...

Accepted Answer

CCC

Question 13

What did the Bonus Army want from the government/President Hoover?

Accepted Answer

early payment of a prmoised military bonus - $1000.00

Question 14

Who did Americans like better as a President? Hoover or Roosevelt?

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt

Question 15

Why did Sit Downs work?

Accepted Answer

no one could work

Question 16

Passed laws and regulated the stock market...

Accepted Answer

SEC

Question 17

Hoover's 1st reaction to the Great Depression was....

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Questions 17