Great Depression/New Deal

Who was president when the stock market crashed?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.

• banks closed
• banks gave away their money
• they couldn't remember where they put it
• someone stole it

True or False: The prosperity of the 1920's meant that people were making risky investments in the stock market.

• True

• False

FDR helped gain peoples trust by reassuring them that he had a plan to help fix the Great Depression. What did he call this program?

• The New Deal

• The Fair Deal

• The Square Deal

• The Bad Deal

Which was NOT a goal of the New Deal?

• Relief

• Recovery

• Reform

• Revenge

What was the Great Depression?

• A period of economic success and an improving economy

• The worst economic catastrophe in U.S. history

• A period of time that witnessed American involvement in violent foreign wars

• A hotly contested presidential election

What were two basic 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

What happened on Black Tuesday in October 1929?

• Companies sold millions of shares, and the stock market crashed.

• Americans sold millions of shares, and the stock market crashed.

• Factories shut down and cut millions of positions.

• Americans paid back the money that they had borrowed to buy stocks.

What New Deal program restricted agricultural production by paying farmers to grow less crops

• AAA
• CCC
• REA
• SSA

What was created to protect bank deposits up to $5,000?

• WPA
• CCC
• TVA
• FDIC