Great Depression and New Deal Flashcard

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Which R was NOT a New Deal Initiative: Relief, Reform, Recovery?

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Recession

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Who was president of the United States during a majority of the Great Depression?

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Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR)

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Why did banks fail during the Great Depression?

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banks made risky loans/investments that weren't paid back

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Which of the trends during the 1920s set the stage for the Great Depression? Americans building up personal debt, Americans refusing to play the stock market, A lack of farmland in the Midwest and Great Plains, banks making very safe loans

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Americans building up personal debt

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What was the Dust Bowl?

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Farmland in the middle of America ruined by drought and over planting

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Which of the following best describes credit? Portions of a company's total ownership, borrowed money that can be paid off at a later date, International lending given after World War I, Bank loans that are given to help pay for a house

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borrowed money that can be paid off at a later date

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Using the graph, which statement below BEST summarizes the state of U.S. unemployment during the Great Depression (1929 - 1941)?
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Unemployment stayed the same
Unemployment dramatically increased, and was therefore bad
Unemployment dramatically dropped, and was therefore good
Unemployment increased slightly

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Unemployment dramatically increased, and was therefore bad

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What does the chart below represent?

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New Deal programs that helped America get out of the Great Depression

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President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal

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created government funded jobs for unemployed people, thus helped bring us out of the Great Depression.

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What is another term for shantytowns of make shift housing, often set up in city parks and named after the President that many Americans thought made the Great Depression worse?

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