Great Depression

The purpose of the New Deal program was to...

• improve working conditions in factories
• stop the sale of alcohol in states
• end discrimination against African Americans
• help the nation recover from the Depression

Which of the following was "NOT" a cause of the Great Depression?

• Over speculation on stocks using borrowed money
• High tariffs discouraged international trade
• Unpaid debts from fighting World War I
• Too much debt from buying goods on installment plans

Large numbers of banks and businesses failed• Large numbers of people were homeless and hungry• Farmers’ incomes fell to low levels
What was the cause of these?

• Reconstruction
• Great Depression
• Great Migration
• Segregation

What was President Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression?

• He believed "rugged individualism" would solve the economy

• He created mass welfare

• He increased infrastructure to create jobs

• He violated his policy of laissez-faire

How did FDR plan to change the role of the federal government?

• He wanted to increase the role of the executive branch and its power over Congress and the Supreme Court

• He wanted to put Congress in charge of the Supreme Court

• He wanted to follow the direction of Congress to solve the Great Depression

• He wanted to reduce the overall power of the federal government over the states

During the panic of 1929, leading to Black Thursday, the heavy selling stocks in a short period of time caused-

• prices of stocks to drop

• businesses to issue more stocks

• prices of stocks to rise

• people to buy more shares

Based on the map, which region of the United States suffered most directly from the Dust Bowl

• Southwest

• Pacific Northwest

• Rocky Mountains

• Great Plains

What was the immediate cause of the Dust Bowl?

• extensive mining

• a severe drought

• the Great Depression

• diseased animals

What finally ended the Great Depression?

• FDR's 4th term

• FDIC

• World War II

• New Deal

What was Roosevelt's purpose in "packing the courts"?

• to attempt to racially balance the Supreme Court

• to minimize opposition to his New Deal legislation

• to give the Supreme Court more power to make decisions

• to allow the Supreme COurt to equally represent citizens