Standards 17 & 18: Great Depression and New Deal

This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on farmers on the Great Plains.

• Tornadoes
• Dust Bowl
• Black Tuesday 
• Hurricanes

The President who was mostly blamed for worsening the Great Depression 

• Roosevelt 
• Eisenhower
• Hoover
• Jefferson

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This New Deal program helps to ensure retirement funds for all Americans and helps those in need of immediate monetary assistance.

• FDIC
• SSA
• AAA
• CCC 

The name given to the programs enforced by FDR to ensure relief, recovery, and reform. 

• Stock Market 
• Great Depression
• Margin 
• New Deal 

This President enforced both New Deals and saw America through the Great Depression and most of World War II. 

• Eisenhower
• Truman
• Hoover
• Roosevelt 

This New Deal program insured the public's deposits to make sure that the banks are being run properly so Americans won't lose their savings.

• PWA
• WPA
• SSA
• FDIC

Even though war was breaking out in Europe again, America decided to 

• remain neutral, but supported the Allies with Lend-Lease.
• immediately declare war against the Axis Powers.
• support some of the Axis Powers, but not all of them.
• never join the war, even after Pearl Harbor was bombed.

A time in America following the roaring 20's where America experience rising unemployment that did not end until the onset of World War II. 

• New Deal
• Roaring 20's
• Great Depression
• Cold War 

What percentage of Americans were unemployed in 1933?

• 25%
• 35%
• 50%
• 2%

When FDR closed all the banks and did not allow them to reopen until they were stable 

• Bank closures
• Bank retreats
• Bank Holiday
• Margin Holiday