The Great Depression and the New Deal

What economic practice became popular in the 1920s and eventually contributed to the crash of the stock market?

• Paying only cash for stock purchases

• Selling stocks in very rapid succession

• Buying stocks with only a down payment

• Sharing insider information on stock trades

The Events listed are most closely associated with which decade?

~ Major drought coditions in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas

~ Large numbers of bank failures

~ Widespread unemployment

~ Expanded role of the federal government

• 1910-1919

• 1920-1929

• 1930-1939

• 1940-1949

What kind of changes to American society were the defining issues of both the Great Depression and the New Deal?

• Artistic issues

• Economic issues

• Geographic issues

• Chronological issues

Which of the following actions taken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression is a defining characteristic of the era?

• Limited movement of farm workers

• Reduced number of federal employees

• Relaxed restrictions on immigrant workers

• Increased number of new government relief programs

Which of the following correctly pairs the event with its corresponding date?

• Beginning of American Dust Bowl - 1920

• End of the First Worl War in Europe - 1928

• Crash of the market in the United States - 1931

• Beginning of the Great Depression in the United States - 1929

Which event signaled the beginning of the Great Depression?

• Purchase of Alaska

• Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Crash of the New York Stock Exchange

• Charles Lindbergh's nonstop flight over the Atlantic

Which of the following might have reduced the effects of the Dust Bowl?

• Eliminating cattle farrms

• Using chemical fertilizers

• Raising agricultural prices

• Improving water management

Which government agency, established during the Great Depression, still protects consumer savings today?

• Social Security Agency

• National Resources Committee

• Federal Emergency Relief Agency

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Which set of factors contributed most to the pattern shown on the maps?

• Poor irrigation and use of crop rotation

• Multiple El Nino events and dam building

• Years of drought and poor farming techniques

• Farm worker labor shortage and chemical fertilizers

How does tha Social Security Act of 1935 continue to affect the lives of citizens today?

• Protects bank investments

• Funds school improvement

• Provides retirement income

• Grants agricultural subsidies