Great Depression and New Deal 2019

What does the graph show you about unemployment?

• Unemployment was not a problem
• Many Americans lost their jobs during the Great Depression
• The New Deal did nothing to impact the Great Depression 
• The New Deal caused unemployment to rise in 1929

Which cause of the Great Depression placed a tax on imported Goods from Europe?

• Hawley Smoot Tariff

• Stock Market

• Bank Failures

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

Which of the following is NOT a cause of the National Great Depression?

• Smoot Hawley Tariff

• Bank Failures

• Stock Market Crash of 1929

• World War 2

What was Roosevelt's plan to help end the Great Depression?

• Hoover Deal
• New Plan
• New Deal
• New Charter

Which New Deal Program provided unemployment insurance & insurance for the elderly and disabled? (Still around today)

• AAA
• SSA (Social Security)
• REA
• CCC

A significant effect of the Smoot-Hawley tariff was that

• US consumers benefitted from lower prices on goods
• trade between the US and Europe was greatly reduced
• labor unions gained legal protection for collective bargaining
• US manufacturers faced competition from foreign nations

Shanty towns (make-shift) towns were named after this person due to the people’s dissatisfaction of the amount of help they were given after the Stock Market Crash?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Theodore Roosevelt
• William McKinley

What is one way the New Deal was supposed to help the economy out of the Great Depression?

• by eliminating trading on the stock market
• by encouraging war with Germany and Japan
• by creating jobs through various new programs
• by giving people money through new bank laws

. In 1929 the Great Depression started in the United States. In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president and he promised a "New Deal" to the American people. Which of the following BEST describes the role of the government during the New Deal?

• The government wanted people to take care of themselves and not use the government.
• The New Deal led to the government being more involved in the economy of the country.
• The government wanted people to let the government provide everything they needed.
• The New Deal led to the government being less involved in the economy of the country.

Which President created the New Deal, a plan to get the U.S. out of the Great Depression?

• Franklin Roosevelt 
• Herbert Hoover
• Harry Truman
• Woodrow Wilson