The causes of the Great Depression

What natural calamity coincided with the New Deal and caused intensified and increased poverty throughout Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other parts of the south?

• the bank holiday
• the great flood of 1927
• the dustbowl
• increaded lynchings

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

• churches
• businesses
• soup kitchens
• work

What were the major goals of the New Deal?

• no gold standard and free coinage of silver
• abolition and suffrage
• relief, recovery, and reform
• expanding the size and economic influence of the United States

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?

• low worker productivity
• high income taxes
• decreasing tariff rates
• buying stocks on margin

What was the unemployment rate during the Great Depression?

• 8.0%
• 15.6%
• 54.0%
• 25.0%

This program hired young male civilians ages 18-26 who were unemployed and paid them to work mostly on outdoor conservation projects such as national parks and planting trees (helped to prevent erosion which was prevalent because of over farming).

• CCC
• TVA
• WPA
• TVA

A time when business activity is very slow and people are out of work is known as a _____________.

• crash
• depression
• party
• low time

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.

This president thought the federal government should not get involved in the economy. As a result, many Americans blamed him for the Great Depression. This caused him to lose the election in 1932.

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Theodore Rooselvelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Calvin Coolidge