Great Depression Review

Became first female cabinet member (Secretary of Labor 1933-45) helped created social security systems.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

   

• Herbert Hoover

• Frances Perkins

• Harriet Hoover

PWA: Public Works Administration:

• Created jobs by having people build highways, bridges and other public works

• Planned development of the Tennessee Valley region

• Regulated farm production and promoted soil conservation

• Provided federal money for relief projects to the roughly 13 million unemployed

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

• He violated his policy of laissez-faire

• He increased infrastructure to create jobs

• He created mass welfare 

• He believed "rugged individualism" would solve the economy

Relief, Recovery, and Reform were part of ___.

• Stock Investments

• The New Deal

• The Square Deal

• Labor Unions

   

What was a guiding principle of the New Deal economic policies?

• Government must assume more responsibility for helping the poor.

• Pro-business tax breaks would solve the problems associated with urban poverty.

• Antitrust legislation would destroy the free market economy of the United States.

• Rugged individualism must be allowed to solve social inequality.

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

• an increase in demand for imported products

• a decrease in the supply of consumer goods

• overproduction and under consumption

• an increase in the price of wheat on the world market

The Tennessee Valley Authority or TVA was a New Deal program which put people to work:

• maintaining the nation's forests

• constructing public buildings

• building dams, bridges and roads

• in school, hospitals, and libraries

What caused the Stock Market to crash in 1929?

• People and investors decided to buy more stock

• People and investors decided to sell their stock

• The Stock Market crashed from an explosion

• All of these

During what decade did the majority of the Great Depression occur?              

• 1900s

• 1910s

• 1920s

• 1930s

Which states were affected by the dust bowl?

• Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia

• Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico

• Arizona. Arkansas. California. Colorado. Connecticut.

• All of these