Unit 8: Emerging as a Modern Nation

What New Deal program gives you a monthly pension when you turn 65?

• Social Security
• TVA
• Medicare
• FDIC

During the Great Depression, many people did lose their homes because they couldn't pay for them.  They either had to live with family members or in makeshift "houses" made out of cardboard or whatever they could find.  These were called "Hoovervilles" or ________________.

• shanty towns
• neighborhoods
• Hoover Wagons
• clubs

The U.S. senator from Louisiana who was known as the "Kingfish".

• Francis Townsend
• Charles Coughlin
• Huey Long
• Tom Joad

His program to help the poor during the Great Depression was known as the "Share the Wealth" program.

• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Clark Gable
• Huey Long

■subsidized farmers

• TVA
• CCC
• AAA
• WPA

–regulate the stock market & prevent another stock market crash 

• ACC
• SEC
• TVA
• CCC

–created dams in 7 states to provide cheap hydroelectric power & create jobs 

• CCC
• TVA
• WPA
• SEC

Harlem is a neighborhood in 

• New York City
• New Orleans
• New Jersey
• Africa

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Which was NOT a LONG-TERM cause of the Great Depression?

• Buying stock on margin
• Stock market crash (Black Tuesday)
• too much production and consumer spending
• Laisezz-faire economic policies

The Great Depression began in

• 1925
• 1929
• 1932
• 1940