The Great Depression

The Great Depression started because

• WWII started

• the stock market crashed

• Hoover was elected president

• there was a drought

A cause of the stock market crash would be

• shaky banking practices

• overproduction

• speculation on buying stocks

• all of the above

President Hoover believed the best way to help the country was

• direct payments to the people

• help businesses which would hire workers

• build shantytowns to house homeless people

• hope charities would help out

Riding the rails means

• following the train tracks from town to town

• being a hobo

• hopping trains

• another term for skiing

A 'Hooverville' was

• a shantytown of homeless people

• low income housing provided by the government

• a town that changed its name to honor the president

Franklin Roosevelt's plan to help the nation out of the depression was called

• the Fair Deal

• the Big Deal

• the Square Deal

• the New Deal

A New Deal program that insures bank deposits today is

• the Works Progress Administration

• the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Social Security

• Tennessee Valley Authority

The goal of the New Deal was to provide

• rationing, restoring and realignment

• relief, reestablishment and restore

• relief, recovery and reform

• reform, reality and restore

An example of relief during the depression would be

• soup kitchens and breadlines

• writing a new banking law

• hiring men to build a new school

• closing all the banks

Franklin Roosevelt suffered from this disease

• COVID

• pneumonia

• polio

• influenza