Depression, Dust, and the New Deal

The Great Depression only impacted the U.S.

• True

• False

The day the stock market crashed in 1929 is known as what?

• Alphabet Soup

• Black Tuesday

• Hooverville

• Dust Bowl

Which was not a key cause / contributing factor in the Great Depression?

• Banks failed due to lack of currency.

• Increased gap between the rich & poor from the Roaring Twenties.

• Overproduction lowered crop prices and farmers lost profit.

• The United States was fighting a costly war with Mexico.

• Global trade declined due to unpaid WWI debts.

Most people had savings account in the U.S. by the start of the Great Depression.

• True

• False

Which does NOT describe Herbert Hoover?

• He supported many government programs to provide recovery, relief, & reform.

• He was blamed for the Great Depression for not acting quickly enough to help.

• He believed rugged individualism and voluntarism would help the nation most.

• He lost the election of 1832 to FDR by a wide margin.

FDR program for helping the U.S. out of the Great Depression was called what?

• Dollar Diplomacy

• New Deal

• Great Society

• America First

FDR created a "holiday" for what to help stabilizing the economy.

• Farms

• Businesses

• Stock Market

• Banks

WWI vets protested the failure of a bill in Congress that would give them money. This group was known as the ________ Army.

What were the people who migrated out of the Dust Bowl as "refugees" called?

• Okies

• Exodusters

• Sooners

• Boomers

Which New Deal program gave electricity to rural areas by creating a work program to build dams, etc.?

• AAA

• SSA

• TVA

• FDIC