The Great Depression

Which was NOT a LONG-TERM cause of the Great Depression?

• Buying stock on margin
• Stock market crash (Black Tuesday)
• too much production and consumer spending
• Laisezz-faire economic policies

The Great Depression began in

• 1925
• 1929
• 1932
• 1940

What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

• Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
• Unemployment decreased gradually.
• Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
• Hoover was re-elected as president.

Roosevelt's collection of laws and programs to help the nation deal with the Depression was known as

• the New Deal.
• the Square Deal.
• the Hundred Days.
• Public Works.

The __________________  was the longest period of unemployment and low economic activity in the 1900's.

• New Deal
• Great Depression
• Dust Bowl
• Civil War

In the 1930's, people would line up at ____________ to get food.  These were normally run by charities.

• churches
• businesses
• soup kitchens
• work

Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover

After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.

• banks closed
• banks gave away their money
• they couldn't remember where they put it
• someone stole it

The president elected after Herbert Hoover who promised to give America a "New Deal" was _________________.

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln
• Grover Cleveland

Which of the following New Deal laws/agencies regulated the buying and selling of stocks?

• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Emergency Banking Act
• Home Owners Insurance Corporation