Great Depression and New Deal

Why did most of the New Deal programs begin in 1933? 

• Because that was the worst year of the Great Depression
• Because that was the first year of the Great Depression
• Because that was the year that President Roosevelt took office
• Because that is the year that President Hoover was impreached

Which was a sign that the economy was weakening in the 1920s?

• Failure of rural banks
• underproduction of consumer goods
• consumers buying goods on credit
• the collapse of large corporations

The new deal changed political thinking because it supported idea that__________.

• rights of workers are less important than businesses
• Supreme Court should play a larger role
• Gov't should become more involved in the social/economic life of people
• Foreign Policy is more important than domestic

In the 1930s, what made farmers migrate from the Great Plains?

• high farm prices
• new technologies 
• Dust Bowl
• baby boom

New Deal programs like CCC and WPA were made to help

• farmers
• home owners
•  businesses
• unemployed workers

Hoovervilles were called that  because of Hoover's

• support for federal programs to provide jobs
• refusal to provide relief/aid to homeless
• efforts to help farmers
• lack of food to the poor

In 1933, the 21st Amendment brought an end to

• Prohibition
• Stock Speculation
• The Depression
• The United State Communist Party

The 2 basic causes of dust bowl were

• mining and toxic waste 
• overfarming and severe drought
• overpopulation and urbanization
• clear cutting forests and railroads

When people buy stocks for the chance of quick profit, they are

• buying on a margin
• buying on credit
• speculation
• distributing wealth

Nickname for Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Black Tuesday
• Dooms Day
• Black Thursday
• Dooms Friday