The Great Depression, Dust Bowl, Bonus Army, New Deal

People leaving Oklahoma to find work were know as BLANK

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.

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

The Bonus Army

• refers to the people living in makeshift homeless camps that popped up throughout the nation during the Great Depression

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

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

• refers to the World War I veterans who marched on Washington D.C. to demand immediate payment of their service bonuses

What caused Hoover to take cautious steps in his approach to the Great Depression?

• his religious beliefs

• his political philosophy

• his educational background

• his lack of leadership experience

What problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) developed to address?

• Excessive stock market speculation

• High unemploment

• Increased use of credit

• Overproduction of goods

Which government agency gives benefits to people when they are retired or unemployed?

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Social Security Admistration

A major reason for creating the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933 was to-

• Provide health care benefits to southerners

• Encourage African-Americans to settle in the valley

• Improve economic conditions in a poor rural region

• Evacuate farmers from the impoverished region

The Public Works Administration (PWA)

• brought low-cost electric power to rural areas, including the building of publicly owned and operated power plants and flood-control projects

• allowed business, labor, and the public to create codes to regulate production, prices wages, hours, and collective bargaining. Businesses used it to create new monopolies by forcing smaller firms out of business

• was created in 1933 to oversee the rebuilding of America's infrastructure, such as roads, schools, and libraries

• employed about 2.5 million young, unmarried men to work on different nature related projects like planting forests, cleaning up beaches, and building bridges and dams.

What was one advantage that people in rural areas had during the Great Depression that people in the cities lacked?

• the ability to grow food

• the ability to live in shantytowns

• the ability to obtain assistance at bread lines

• he ability to relocate to the Pacific Coast states