The Great Depression and the New Deal Review

1) When was the Stock Market Crash known as Black Tuesday?

• October 30, 1939

• October 26, 1928

• October 29, 1929

• October 26, 1930

1) How did buying on margin/speculation contribute to the outbreak of the Great Depression?

• People and businesses risked money they didn't have in a risky stock market

• They increased the price of goods beyond where average Americans could buy them

• They created a system of overproduction

• They slowed world trade to a halt

2) How did bank runs contribute to the Great Depression?

• Banks hoarded money preventing people with withdrawing any funds

• Banks issues too little credit to keep people satisfied with banking businesses

• People took money out of unregulated banks causing the system to collapse, people lost faith in banks

• It caused massive riots leading to mass violence in major cities

2) How did the Stock Market lead into the Great Depression?

• It caused overproduction to cease

• It lead to the mass foreclosure of many important farms

• It caused the collapse of the US manufacturing industry

• The market crashed causing people to lose faith in the stock market and banks

3) How did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff make the Great Depression worse?

• It decreased the price of goods from other countries

• It slowed down international trade and made the global depression worse

• It caused unregulated banks to fail

• It triggered panics causing future bank runs

4) Which of these best describes the geographical causes of the Dust Bowl?

• Advances in new farming technology and mass production of farm goods

• Long periods of drought

• tropical wind storms and dust from the African Sahara

• Mass migrations westward using auotmobiles

4) Which of these best describes the human causes of the Dust Bowl?

• Advances in new farming technology and mass production of farm goods

• Poor agricultural practices and overproduction killed the soil

• tropical wind storms and dust from the African Sahara

• Mass migrations westward using automobiles

5) Why did the U.S. government force the repatriation of thousand of people of Mexican ancestry?

• To continue to stop the spread of Communism through immigrants

• To reduce competition for jobs for white American farmers

• To prepare for an adjustment of borders after a new treaty

• To fulfill a secret agreement with the Mexican government

5) What happened to unemployment during the Great Depression?

• It remained at low levels until World War II

• As many as 25% to 33% of Americans did not have a job and could not spend

• The government was able to get unemployment to 0%

• It never went above 10% of the country's working population

5) What was Dorothea Lange's impact on the Great Depression?

• She was the chef architect of the New Deal

• She created most of FDR's fireside chat speeches

• She was the founder of the Social Security Bureau

• Her photographs showed people the social and economic conditions and struggles of the poor