APUSH P7 CQ #4 7.9-7.10

The Great Depression

• refers to the growing rates of individuals suffering from mental health issues in the aftermath of the cultural shift of the 1920s

• refers to the crash of the U.S. stock market on October 29th, 1929

• refers to the worldwide economic collapse caused by overproduction and financial speculation

• refers to the economic struggles of the United States in the 1930s, which was primarily due to the rampant consumerism of the 1920s and America's struggling economy after World War I.

An underlying cause of the Great Depression, which began in 1929, was

• excessive government control of business and industry

• overproduction in the manufacturing and farm sectors

• the budget deficit incurred after the First World War

• withdrawal of foreign investments from the United States

In the 1930s the Great Depression resulted in

• a dramatic increase in emigration to Canada

• a major migration from California to the Central Plains

• an increase in the number of transient people searching for work

• a dramatic increase in the number of foreign immigrants

The Hawley-Smoot Act

• increased tariffs on agricultural and industrial imports from foreign nations, which led to retaliation by other nations and led to diminished demand for American exports

• was a measure that aimed to raise prices for long-suffering farmers by having the government buy up farm surpluses

• was the executive order that shut down banks for several days to calm widespread panic during the Great Depression

• Created the FDIC, a government institution which inusred personal savings accounts up to $5,000

The Agricultural Marketing Act, which created the Federal Farm Board,

• increased tariffs on agricultural and industrial imports from foreign nations, which led to retaliation by other nations and led to diminished demand for American exports

• was a measure that aimed to raise prices for long-suffering farmers by having the government buy up farm surpluses

• was the executive order that shut down banks for several days to calm widespread panic during the Great Depression

• was the New Deal act that raised prices for farm produce by paying farmers subsidies to reduce production

FDR's "Bank Holiday"

• increased tariffs on agricultural and industrial imports from foreign nations, which led to retaliation by other nations and led to diminished demand for American exports

• was a measure that aimed to raise prices for long-suffering farmers by having the government buy up farm surpluses

• was the executive order that shut down banks for several days to calm widespread panic during the Great Depression

• Created the FDIC, a government institution which inusred personal savings accounts up to $5,000

The Glass-Steagall Act

• increased tariffs on agricultural and industrial imports from foreign nations, which led to retaliation by other nations and led to diminished demand for American exports

• was a measure that aimed to raise prices for long-suffering farmers by having the government buy up farm surpluses

• was the executive order that shut down banks for several days to calm widespread panic during the Great Depression

• increased regulation of banks and created the FDIC, a government institution which inusred personal savings accounts up to $5,000

In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover disagreed most strongly about the desirability of

• farm price supports

• federal aid to corporations

• a balanced federal budget

• federal relief to individuals

All of the following occured during the Great Depression except

• around one million Mexicans, the majority of whom were American citizens, were deported by the Federal Government, who worked with states and private companies to remove the people

• many of the New Deal programs continued patterns of segregation that harmed black communities in the United States

• the U.S. granted independence to the Philippines and restricted Filipino immigration into the United States

• a massive decrease in the amount of immigration from European nations to Northern cities

Hoovervilles

• refer to the name given by journalists to makeshift homeless camps that popped up throughout the nation during the Great Depression

• refer to the "villages" of citizens that organized in support of the New Deal reform programs initiated by President Hoover

• refer to the towns ravaged by the horrors of the Dust Bowl in the midwest

• refer to the camps set up by World War I veterans who marched on Washington D.C. to demand immediate payment of their service bonuses