Great Depression/New Deal

During the Great Depression, there was a severe drought in the Great Plains. Strong prairie winds picked up the topsoil and spread dust everywhere. Many farm families packed everything up and moved west. What was this event called?

• Dust Bowl
• Salad Bowl
• Great Plains Panic

What is speculation?

• Paying a small part of the stocks prices as a down payment on a loan

• Soldiers from WWI left jobless

• Buying and selling stock in hope of making a quick profit

• Borrowed money to fund government programing

Who was President of the US when the stock market crashed and Depression began?

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• William McKinley

People who could no longer afford their homes were forced to live in cardboard shacks that they built in public parks. What were these shacks called?

• Shantyshacks
• Town Homes
• Tenement Housing
• Hoovervilles

How did Herbert Hoover say the government should help the people?

• He said that the government should give everyone million dollars each.

• He said the government should leave the helping to charity organizations.

• He said that we should build airplanes to gather cloud fuzz.

• He created jobs for people who needed jobs.

Overproduction

• taxes places on imported good—good coming into a country-- to protect domestic businesses from foreign competition
• aid in the form of goods or money to help the needy
• actions, laws or procedures to prevent future depressions
• when factories make more than people will buy or when supply exceeds demand

Which of the following was a major cause of the Great Depression?

• overproduction and underconsumption
• a decrease in the supply of consumer goods
• an increase in demand for imported products
• an increase in the price of wheat on the world market

What was the main reason for the emergence of “Hoovervilles” like the one shown in the photograph?

• Many Americans had lost jobs during the Great Depression.
• Thousands of homes had been destroyed by the effects of the Dust Bowl.
• Housing projects could not keep up with the demand for homes needed by the poor.
• Preparations for World War I had created a shortage of building materials.

Which president was blamed for the Great Depression

• Woodrow Wilson

• Herbert Hoover

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

Which president brought hope during the Great Depression

• Woodrow Wilson

• Herbert Hoover

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt