Great Depression Review

The New Deal ___________ the size of the ___________ government.

• Increased; Federal

• Decreased; State

• Increased; State

• Decreased; Federal

Which one of theses is a cause of the Great Depression?

• Buying on margin

• Land speculation

• Scarcity of goods

• Government regulation

Because of Bank Failures what happened to the people?

• People who worked in banks lost their jobs

• People who had money in the bank ended up with nothing

• People were unable to make accounts

• People who had loans with the banks did not have to pay them off.

President Herbert Hoover got majority of the blame for the Great Depression because of his _________?

• Did little to help the depression.

• Spending more of the governments money

• Loaned a lot of money to bail out banks

• imposed hurtful tariffs

What year was Black Tuesday?

• 1930

• 1925

• 1929

• 1932

Under FDR he introduced a new way to help relieve the public with the creation of his _______________?

• New Deal

• Square Deal

• Contract to America

• Fourteen Points

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, part of the New Deal. Was designed to —

• Protect Deposits

• Monitor the Stock Market

• Protect Withdrawals

• Gave benefits to the elderly

Franklin Roosevelt responded to the Great Depression in all of the following ways except—

• stricter restrictions on immigrant workers.

• implemented new government programs.

• increased the number of federal employees.

• paid farmers subsidies.

The building of Dams under the Tennessee Valley Authority led to what for the people?

• Employment

• major flooding

• Clean Drinking Water

• electrical power

What factor led to the Dust Bowl?

• drought and poor farming techniques

• railroad expansion

• rapid urbanization

• construction of canals