The Great Depression and the New Deal!!!

Which of the following was one cause Great Depression?

• WWI
• The invention of the radio
• Stock Market Crash
• Hoovervilles

Shantytowns were often called “Hoovervilles”. Why?

• many people blamed President Hoover for the Great Depression
• many people loved President Hoover so they named their neighborhoods for him
• people were proud to be an American
• people lived in a city called Hoover 

What event forced many farmers to leave the Great Plains and move to California and the  North?

• The re-election of President Roosevelt
• The Dust Bowl
•    The bombing of Pearl Harbor
• The formation of the TVA

Which of the following is the full title of what we may refer to as the CCC?

• Corporation Conserved Citizens
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Civilian Conservations Center
• Center Counter Civilians

What is the purpose of the Social Security program?

• to provide money to those who can’t work due to unemployment or the elderly.
• to regulate trading on Wall St. 
• to restore confidence in the banking system and prevent runs on the banks. 
• to provide men with jobs building parks and planting trees

What were president Roosevelt’s three goals for the programs of New Deal?

• review, resend, reject
• encourage, enlighten, elevate
• relief, recovery, reform
• review, relief, relax

What New Deal programs are still being used today?

• CCC, FDIC, SSA
• FDIC, SEC, CCC
• SSA, SEC, FDIC
• CCC, SEC, ACC

Who had been the president when the Great Depression began in 1929?

• Herbert Hudson
• Herbert Hoover
• Herbert Henry
• Herbert Roosevelt

When banks failed during the Great Depression and many Americans lost their money,

• (a)  the government gave all homeless people free houses.
• only people who had invested in the stock market could pay for food
• (a)  people in France and Britain sent donations of food and money
• (a)  people bought fewer goods and factory workers lost their jobs

The New Deal agency that helped bring an end to bank panics was called

• TVA
• SEC
• FDIC
• SSA