MHS US/VA History Unit 7.4 Presentation - Writing Intensive

Multiple Select

Which of the following is true about the Great Depression?

• The unemployment rate reached 25% in 1933.

• The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act worsened the depression by causing other countries to enact retaliatory tariffs.

• Drought and erosion in the Midwest caused by over-farming resulted in hundreds of thousands of homeless farmers.

Multiple Select

The overstripping of the Midwest and the subsequent Dust Bowl phenomenon resulted in the which of the following?

• A. The loss of farms and immigration of farmers further west.

• B. The death of many people and livestock.

• C. A complete reversal when the drought ended in 1939 and an agricultural boom.

Multiple Choice

This political cartoon is warning against what practice?

• Prohibition

• Communism

• Overspeculation

• Bankruptcy

Categorize

Options (10)

Agricultural Adjustment Association

Tennessee Valley Authority

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Securities Exchange Commission

Civilian Conservation Corps

Public Works Administration

Works Program Administration

Social Security Act

Rural Electrification Administration

Civilian Works Administration

Organize these New Deal Programs into the right categories

Relief

Recovery

Reform