Great Depression

Click ALL of the following that could apply to the effects of the Great Depression

• Bank failures

• Unemployment rises

• Rise of Banks opening

• Life Savings lost

Shantytowns and homes made by homeless people from scrap wood and tins become known as

• Depressionville

• Government homes

• Hooverville

The New Deal is BEST described as

• fixing and ending the Great Depression giving millions a steady job and a regular paycheck moving forward into the 1940s

• being the same thing President Hoover did just setting up a system of empty promises given to the people

• temporary help and relief to some Americans, but could not sustain or end the Great Depression

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.

Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?

• low worker productivity

• high income taxes

• decreasing tariff rates

• buying stocks on margin

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.

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

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

The president elected after Herbert Hoover who promised to give America a "New Deal" was _________________.

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln
• Grover Cleveland

The purpose of FDR’s Social Security program was to—  

• Provide homes for children orphaned and abandoned during the Great Depression.

• Encourage social activism, specifically supporting women’s rights.

• Ensure all members of society had the “security” of their own home or apartment.

• Provide benefits for retired people and the unemployed through a payroll tax.

Read the list, then select the answer that fills in the blank.

Reasons for the Great Depression:

1- Collapse of the stock market

2- Loss of consumer confidence

3- ​ (a)  

• failure of banks
• decrease in interest rates
• outsourcing of manufacturing jobs
• outbreak of global war