Great Depression and New Deal

What is a cause of the Great Depression?

• Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Buying on credit

• Hoovervilles

During the Great Depression, Hoover

• created the New Deal.

• spoke to the people through fireside chats

• created work programs, but it was too little too late.

What is being offered to the people standing in this line?

• free coffee and donuts

• free merchandise

• free hugs

What is a bank run?

• People running out of the bank with loans.

• People trying to get their savings quickly and all at once.

• Businesses running to get money for the stock market.

This is a picture of a migrant worker during the Depression. Based on her facial expression, she feels

• happy and content

• sad and concerned

• excited and joyful

FDR comforted people through

• discussions at the white house.

• speeches on TV

• fireside chats.

FDR created the ___________________________ which created programs to help Americans through the GD.

• New Deal

• Bonus Army

• AAA

The picture represents a time of a severe drought and high winds in the midwest. This event was the

• dust bowl.

• farmers overproducing.

• blizzard of the Great Plains.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) was created to support the elderly, the disabled and the ___________________.

• children of the Depression

• churches to help fund the Depression

• unemployed

____________________ created jobs for the unemployed and eventually brought the world out of the GD.

• WWI

• WWII

• Cold War