Great Depression and New Deal

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

The New Deal was divided into 3 categories: relief for immediate help, reform to fix problems, and _________________________ to help the people and nation “get back on their feet”. 

• reinvent
• radicalize
• recovery
• reissue 

The Dust Bowl was a problem with farmland that happened during the Great Depression. The Dust Bowl happened for two MAIN reasons. These two reasons were:

• Farmers over planted their fields and there was a drought 
• New Deal programs ruined farms and there was a drought 
• Farmers over planted fields and President Hoover ended the New Deal 
• Farmers sent too much food to soup kitchens and did not save enough for themselves

Who was president at the beginning of the Great Depression and said it was not the government’s job to get the economy out of the depression? 

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

Who was the president that helped create the New Deal program to create jobs in the U.S.? 

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

The Works Progress Administration was the largest program of the New Deal. It employed 8.5 million people. WPA programs included the creation of: 

• Public buildings, roads, parks, and the arts
• Electrical power plants in the Tennessee Valley 
• Kitchens to feed the hungry 
•  Elevators, tall office buildings and shantytowns 

The Civilian Conservation Corps was responsible for the following: 

• Bridges, parks, and dams 
• Airports, telephone poles, and planting trees 
• National Parks, electricity, and paid artists to paint murals 
• National Parks, planting trees, and telephone poles 

The Tennessee Valley Authority included doing things like: 

• Irrigation, paying artists to paint murals, and National Parks 
• Climbing telephone poles, nature trails, and flood control 
• Building dams, irrigation, and controlling flooding 
• Building roads, bridges, and electricity 

What year did the Stock Market Crash?

• 1928
• 1929
• 1930
• 1931