New Deal Review

Choose the THREE factors that contributed to the great depression:

• Stock speculation and buying stock on margin

• overproduction

• consumerism

• People moved to the city away from farms.

• WW1 created an economic depression in the 1920s

Who was president at the onset on the Great Depression?

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Calvin Coolidge

• Harry S. Truman

Which of the following describes Hoover's attitude about the economic depression of the 1930's.

• The government caused it and should fix it.

• The economy was fine and everyone is overreacting.

• It is not the governments responsibility to fix the economy.

• The government must do more to help the poor and unemployed.

Which of the following is correct concerning the Presidential election of 1932?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover by a very small margin.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover by a huge margin.

• Herbert Hoover defeated FDR by a very small margin but FDR stole the election due to internet hackers and FDR was named president.

• Herbert Hoover defeated FDR by a very small margin.

Which of the following is correct?

• Eugene Talmadge supported the New Deal

• Winston Churchill was 200lbs.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the New Deal

• George Lucke keeps snacks tucked inside his beard.

Choose TWO of the following in regards to Eugene Talmadge and The New Deal.

• He publicly supported the programs

• He publicly opposed the programs

• He reluctantly cooperated with the NEW DEAL

• He refused to cooperate with the NEW DEAL

Gov. Talmadge's refusal to support the New Deal hurt ____________ the most. This is the same group he claimed to be helping.

• The Military

• Georgia Factory Workers

• Alabama Gulf Coast Shrimpers

• Poor GA Farmers

What was one of the main reasons Talmadge opposed the NEW DEAL.

• It was expensive

• He was a republican

• He hated farmers

• He was prejudice concerning helping blacks

Which of the following helped FDR understand the plight of rural people during the great depression?

• His tours of the USA by Train

• Gov. Talmadge's opposition

• His time in Warm Springs

• He grew up a poor farmer in Warm Springs

The Civilian Conservation Corps completed which of the following in GA -- choose two

• Art Installation

• Rural Electrification

• Road Construction

• Planted Trees In National Forests