Great Depression and New Deal

Throughout most of the 1920s, American were generally

• worried that the stock market would crash

• confident that business would bring continued prosperity

• delighted that wealth was evenly distributed

• concerned with economic danger signs

Onse sign that the economy might be weakening in the 1920s was

• uneven distribution of national wealth

• underproduction of consumer goods

• an increase in personal savings

• the collapse of large corporations

European economies were hurt during the depression when

• President Hoover pardoned war debts

• Congress lowered Tariffs

• United States companies stopped investing in Germany

• the United States increased its exports

A major environmental crisis of the 1930s was known as

• The Dust Bowl

• The Grapes of Wrath

• Black Tuesday

• the Great Crash

During the Depression, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans

• made great strides in equal rights legislation

• often lost jobs to white laborers

• were less affected than other groups

in 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment brought an end to

• Prohibition

• stock specutlation

• the Depression

• the United States Communist Party

the 1932 presidential election served as a turning point in the way Americans viewed

• presidential elections

• the Bill of Rights

• the responsibilities of the federal government

• local relief programs and private charities

during the Depression, many African Americans

• took low-paying jobs previously held by white americans

• experienced worsening conditions and discrimination in job and relief programs

• returned from northern cities to the South

• won new civil rights, such as access to education and healthcare

a fundamental disagreement between candidates in the 1932 presidential election concerned whether or not

• the Depression existed

• the federal government should try to fix people's problems

• Americans should offer aid to European economies

• any relief efforts were necessary to ease the economic crisis

the Crash led to

• increased factory production

• a brief period of rising profits

• higher farm prices

• unemployment for millions of workers