Great Depression / New Deal Review

The Stock Market Crash of 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression. This event is also known as

• Black Friday

• Black Tuesday

• Black Thursday

• Bloody Sunday

Using credit to buy stocks was a common practice in the 1920s and a major cause of the Great Depression. This practice was also known as

• installment plans

• laissez-faire

• buying on margin

• calculated risk

Because of his laissez-faire policies, President Hoover was often blamed for the Great Depression. Homeless camps in the 1930s were often known as

• shantytowns

• concentration camps

• internment camps

• Hoovervilles

Who was elected President in 1932?

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Donald Trump

President FDR's plan to combat the Great Depression was known as

• the New Deal.

• the Square Deal.

• the Fair Deal.

• the Great Society

The Great Depression and the New Deal occurred during which decade?

• the 1890s

• the 1920s

• the 1940s

• the 1930s

The drought that occurred during the 1930s that devastated farmers on the Great Plains was known as

• the Great Ash Storm

• the Great Depression Bowl

• Okies

• the Dust Bowl

This New Deal program provided young men with jobs by improving state and national parks.

• WPA

• PWA

• TVA

• CCC

The goal of this New Deal program was to provide jobs by constructing public works and improving public areas.

• SEC

• FDIC

• WPA

• Social Security

This New Deal program regulated the banks with the goal of preventing another "run on the banks" and Great Depression.

• FDIC

• NYA

• SEC

• Wagner Act