The Great Depression Review

Caused the Dust Bowl

• Droughts
• Fireside Chats
• Speculation
• Depression

Year the stock market crashed, Black Tuesday

• 1929
• 1932
• 1925
• 1944

A period with massive unemployment

• Depression
• The New Deal
• Hoovervilles
• Government

FDR's plan to fix America

• The New Deal
• Fireside Chats
• Mexican Repatriation Acct
• SEC

Provided regional jobs/electricity/dams

• TVA
• SEC
• FDIC
• FHA

Region the Dust Bowl affected most

• Midwest
• New England
• West Coast
• Great Plains

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 was NOT a result of the Great Depression?

• Americans lost their homes.
• Americans lost their jobs.
• The stock market crashed.
• Americans found it difficult to make ends meet.

How did Hoovervilles get their name?

• President Franklin Roosevelt named them after his dog, Hoover.
• Hoovervilles were named after President Hoover.

"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.  Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."  - President Herbert Hoover
According to the above quote and what you learned about Hoover, what were President Hoover's core beliefs about the Great Depression?

• The Reconstruction Finance Corporation program would help individuals but hurt banks
• Businesses and individuals should be able to cure the Depression without direct government aid
• The federal government had responsibility to give aid to individuals and businesses during hard economic times like the Great Depression
• Individuals need direct government aid, but businesses