The Great Depression

These shantytowns popped up in cities during the early part of the Depression

• Hoovervilles

• Rooseveltiums

• Wilsontowns

• Rye

Hundreds of thousands of people couldn't find jobs during the great depression.  Many people who couldn't find work couldn't afford to buy food so they had to go to

• Homeless shelters
• Soup kitchens

Bob lived during a time when there were large dust storms and no rain for weeks or months at a time.  This was known as the

• Great Recession
• TVA
• Dust Bowl
• CCC

The Great Depression only took place in the cities.

• True
• False

After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.

• banks closed
• banks gave away their money
• they couldn't remember where they put it
• someone stole it

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

What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

• Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
• Unemployment decreased gradually.
• Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
• Hoover was re-elected as president.

True or False? After the Smoot Hawley Tariff, other countries DID NOT raise their tariffs against the U.S.

• True

• False

By 1932, about ____% of people had lost their jobs.

• 25%

• 30%

• 10%

• 20%

Some economists argue that the Federal Reserve made the Great Depression worse by

• Removing tariffs on imported goods and increasing trade

• Using fiscal policy to combat Depression through spending

• Decreasing money in circulation with tight money policy

• Helping farmers with subsidization and farming practices