Hoover's Great Depression

In the 1930's, people would line up at ____________ to get food.  These were normally run by charities.

• churches
• businesses
• soup kitchens
• work

Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

What tool - passed during the Hoover Administration -  designed to protect American manufacturers actually ended up creating a worldwide depression?

• Reconstruction Finance Committee
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff
• New Deal
• Second New Deal

The Bonus Army incident in 1932 best illustrates the idea that

• F.D.R.'
  s relief programs were unsuccessful.
• many felt that Herbert Hoover was not handling the Depression well.
• protests by veterans during the Depression were effective.
• the U.S. Army had increased in size and power during the Depression.

What was President Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression?

• He believed "rugged individualism" would solve the economy

• He created mass welfare

• He increased infrastructure to create jobs

• He violated his policy of laissez-faire

Money loaned to banks, insurance companies & businesses to jumpstart the economy by Hoover

• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

• Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

Roots of the Depression included overproduction, high tariffs, and

• uneven distribution of wealth

• inadequate money supply

• over-spending by government

• excessive reliance on export sales

What happened to farmers during the Great Depression?

• They continued to have a rise in their harvests.  
• They could not charge much for their crops. 
• They changed from harvesting cotton to growing turnips. 
• They charged higher prices because the demand was high.

During the Depression, many people lost their homes and were forced to live in shantytowns. Some people referred to these shantytowns as Hoovervilles because

• President Hoover had failed to act to fight the Depression
• President Hoover built the shantytowns
• President Hoover was very popular
• President Hoover died in office