CH 14: Great Depression and New Deal

Which situation contributed to the economic problems of the late 1920s?

• immigration of radicals

• overseas military commitments

• excessive use of credit

• overuse of natural resources

The Dust Bowl in the 1930s resulted from

• the over-use of farmland

• the introduction of new crops

• government work programs

• increased pollution

Which statement best explains the economic implication of California’s population growth during the Great Depression?

• Local and state infrastructures were not equipped to support the new increase in migrants

• State governments tapped into reserve funds to provide housing for residents

• State tax rates were increased to fund additional public safety measures.

• The states’ industries grew rapidly due to the large labor supply

Use the table below to answer the question

What is the best title for this table?

• Features of the Gilded Age

• Characteristics of the Great Depression

• Results of the Treaty of Versailles

• Consequences of the Cold War

Use the excerpt below to answer the question.

We found ourselves with more agricultural products than we could possibly consume ourselves and surpluses which other nations did not have the cash to buy from us except at prices ruinously low. We have found our factories able to turn out more goods than we could possibly consume, and at the same time were faced with a falling export demand. We found ourselves with more facilities to transport goods and crops than there were goods and crops to be transported.

—President Franklin Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, July 24, 1933

What did President Roosevelt believe was the main cause of the situation he described?

• lack of regulation of production and markets

• low-interest loans on new technological equipment

• economic depression caused by high tariffs and overproduction

• increased wartime production in response to the rise of totalitarianism

How did the introduction of these New Deal programs affect the role of the government?

Selected New Deal Programs

• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• Social Security Administration (SSA)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• Congress replaced the president as the initiator of most government programs

• the federal government took an active role in protecting individual prosperity

• The government abandoned deficit spending to fund its programs

• Federal government pensions were administered at the state level

Which constitutional issue was raised by these events?

• The Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to “pack” the Supreme Court

• power of federal government to regulate interstate trade and taxes

• separation of powers between the judicial and executive branches

• extent of the implied powers of the legislative branch

• authority of the states to nullify federal laws

Which New Deal program specifically hired young men for public works projects?

• Agricultural Adjustment Administration

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Name given to the 1929 stock market crash that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.

• Black Tuesday

• Maundy Thursday

• Dark Friday

• Black Thursday

Groups of shacks that housed homeless and out of work Americans during the Great Depression

• Hoovervilles

• Shanty Towns

• Shack Cities

• Hovels