Great Depression/New Deal

Which situation was a cause of the Great Depression?

• excessive profits for farmers

• overregulation of the stock market

• overproduction of consumer goods

• continued increases in wages for workers

What were two causes of the Dust Bowl during the early 1930s?

• strip mining and toxic waste dumping

• over farming and severe drought

• clear-cutting of forests and construction of railroads

• overpopulation and urban sprawl

A defect in the United States' banking system that was exposed during the Great Depression was

• excessive government regulation of banks.

• the federal government's ownership of banks.

• an excessive amount of currency in circulation.

• the lack of protection for funds deposited by individuals in banks.

The Social Security Act is often considered part of President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" because it

• offered payments to those who were retired or unemployed.

• made all employers allow their workers to join a labor union.

• had to be amended and added twice before Congress would pass it.

• was part of the President's plans to enact programs that would offer long-range governmental reform.

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

• Shantyshacks

• Tenement Housing

• Town Homes

• Hoovervilles

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

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D Roosevelt

• William McKinley

Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?

• low worker productivity

• high income taxes

• decreasing tariff rates

• buying stocks on margin

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

• FDR's plan of relief, recovery, and reform to relieve the suffering, get us out of the depression, and prevent future depressions
• to buy or sell stocks or land, hoping to gain huge profits quickly
• the president whose New Deal program sought to bring about relief, recovery, and reform
• a period of economic hard times that lasted from 1929 to 1941

What was the bank run?

• A 5k run sponsored by the big banks

• People wanting to give as much money as possible

• Banks running out of paper

• Americans withdrawing all of their money from the banks

Put the following Eras in chronological order.

• New Deal

• World War II

• Gilded Age

  Progressive Era

  Imperialism & WWI

• Roaring 20s

• Great Depression