Great Depression

Unemployment rose in the U.S. as a result of the

• Social Security Act

• Stock Market Crash

• Wagner Act

• New Deal

The government program that protects individual bank deposits is the

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Security and Exchange Commission

• Federal Housing Administration

• Works Progress Administration

The New Deal program that provides pension payments to the elderly after retirement

• Federal Housing Administration

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Social Security Administration

• Tennessee Valley Authority

Roosevelt's programs that provided relief, recovery and reform during the Great Depression

• New Deal

• Red Scare

• Harlem Renaissance

• Dust Bowl

A Federal program that provided jobs to combat the increased unemployment during the Great Depression

• Federal Housing Association

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Civilian Conservation Corps

The program that built dams to provide electricity, provide jobs and increase the standard of living was the

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Federal Housing Administration

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Works Progress Administration

The program that protected the public from stock fraud and bank failures was

• The Securities and Exchange Commission

• Works Progress Administration

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Wagner Act

The New Deal program that assisted people with paying their mortgages was the

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Works Progress Administration

• Federal Housing Authority

• National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act

The main causes of the Great Depression include all of the following EXCEPT

• over production of goods

• risky speculation in the Stock Market

• Bank failures

• Increased trade around the world

The 1930's were characterized primarily by

• increased home purchases

• economic depression following the stock market crash

• a booming economy following World War I

• the jazz age and Lost Generation

• high unemployment and foreclosures