The Great Depression & The New Deal

Which of the following was one cause Great Depression?

• WWI
• The invention of the radio
• Stock Market Crash
• Hoovervilles

The day the Stock Market took its deepest dive was called

• Red Thursday

• Black Tuesday

• Black Friday

• Bloody Sunday

What were THREE causes of the Great Depression?

• Banks failed and caused many people to lose money.

• A severe drought caused farmers to fail

• New Deal caused the nation to go into debt.

• The stock market crashed

Roots of the Depression included overproduction and

• uneven distribution of wealth

• inadequate money supply

• over-spending by government

• excessive reliance on export sales

What was the impact on Business during The Great Depression?

• The demand for goods decreased
• The demand for goods increased
• The demand for goods stayed the same
• Banks were able to make more loans so business could invest more into their buisness

What was the human impact of The Great Depression?

• People were homeless and hungry
• People generally owned their own home 
• People were optimistic about their current circumstances. 
• There was so much economic prosperity that Photographers took historical images of all the boisterousness. 

Why did soup kitchens like the one in the picture open during the Great Depression?

• to give meals to refugees coming to the US

• to provide meals to unemployed people

• to provide meals for government employees

• to provide meals for soldiers from WWI

Why were the people of the United States angry at President Hoover during the Great Depression?

• he seemed uncaring, opposing most types of government direct relief
• he did not take enough action to help enough during the depression
• Americans opposed his handling of the Bonus Army marchers
• all of these are reasons

What was a TURNING point in the Great Depression? What gave people hope?

• Hoovervilles were built

• Roosevelt was elected.

• The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified

• the beginning of jazz music

The period between March & June 1933 when FDR passed 15 major Acts to combat the Great Depression is called ___.

• New Deal

• New Freedom

• First 100 Days

• Nationalism