Great Depression/New Deal

This resulted from overuse of farmland on the Great Plains

• Great Depression
• Hoovervilles
• Dust Bowl
• Stock Market Crash

How did businesses help to contribute to the Great Depression?

• They demanded workers work longer hours.
• They closed down leading to greater unemployment and less consumer spending.
• Workers refused to work overtime.
• Workers demanded higher wages but businesses would not pay.

One cause of the Great Depression resulted from low wages for workers but high profits for business owners.  This led to

• stock market speculation
• uneven distribution of wealth
• bank failures
• easy credit

FDR's main goal through the New Deal was to

• repair the economy
• end segregation
• give women equal rights
• stop Hitler

Why did Roosevelt attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court?

• The Court was not racially representative of the US.
• The Court ruled many of his New Deal programs unconstitutional.
• He felt the Constitution had structured the Court adequately.
• The Court refused to help him evict people from Hoovervilles.

Herbert Hoover's approval rating plummeted during the Great Depression

• he thought the federal government should help fix the economy
• he was too socialist.
• he was largely connected to organized crime
• he felt the federal government should not assist in relief during the Great Depression

One major cause of the stock market crash was

• overfarming
• speculation
• failure of banking
• too much government regulation

Which New Deal program gave income security to the elderly, unemployed, and disabled?

• Wagner Act
• Social Security Act
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• CCC

What was caused by the crash of the stock market

• dust bowl
• a recession
• reorganization of our government policies
• great depression

Years of drought, poor agricultural practices in the mid west caused what

• deforestation 
• reforestation
• dust bowl
• cotton bowl