The Great Depression and the New Deal

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

In 1929, the United States entered an economic slowdown called the Great Depression. One of the early events was the stock market crash. What was a major cause of the stock market crash? (Use process of elimination)

• Stock prices went up so fast that investors could not keep up with the changes.
• The government decided to close the stock market in New York.
• Stock prices fell; investors panicked and sold their stocks, which led to more panic.
• People decided to invest their money in stock markets in Europe.

• Became President after Herbert Hoover
• Pushed for many new programs called “The New Deal”
• President during World War II  

 The list above refers to which person?

• Duke Ellington
• Abraham Lincoln
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin Roosevelt

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

How was the Dust Bowl caused by both humans and nature?

• Many families moving from Dust Bowl areas settled in the San Joachin Valley and became migrant farmers.
• Nearly 350 dust storms carried away the topsoil, and land and homes were covered with dust.
• The Dust Bowl caused families to move west in search of jobs and new homes.
• Farming methods and cattle had harmed the land, and then a severe drought hit the region in the mid-1930s. 

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.