Great Depression

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

• churches
• businesses
• soup kitchens and Bread lines
• work

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

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

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

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

What natural disaster of the 1930s added insult to injury?

• Flooding along the Mississippi River
• The Dust Bowl
• Tornadoes called the Helen Hunt Twisters
• Hurricanes along the Gulf Coast

Pick the best answer.  Over-production of what led to the Great Depression?

• farm goods
• consumer goods
• farm and consumer goods
• iPhones

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.

The Bonus Army incident in 1932 best illustrates the idea that

• F.D.R.'
  s relief programs were unsuccessful.
• many felt that Herbert Hoover was not handling the Depression well.
• protests by veterans during the Depression were effective.
• the U.S. Army had increased in size and power during the Depression.

Which New Deal program was chiefly designed to correct abuses in the stock market?

• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Works Progress Administration
• Securities and Exchange Commission

The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Presidency in 1932 reflected the desire of many Americans to

• have government take an active role in solving economic problems
• return to a policy of laissez-faire capitalism
• continue the domestic policies of the Hoover administration

FDIC- insured bank deposits.
Was it...

• Reform
• Relief
• Recovery