5 US History Spring Review

A major cause of the economic depression of 1929 was

• abuse of credit.

• a return to the gold standard.

• increased number of public works projects.

• government programs designed to reduce agricultural production.

Which situation was a basic cause of the Great Depression?

• excessive profits for farmers

• overregulation of the stock market

• overproduction of consumer goods

• continued increases in wages for workers

The purpose of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) was

• to insure bank deposits in the United States.

• to provide job opportunities in national parks.

• to reduce farm surpluses and raise agricultural profits.

• provide electrical power to an underdeveloped region of the U.S.

This photograph is called "Migrant Mother," and was MOST associated with which of these issues?

• Families losing their homes as a result of the Dust Bowl.

• Families losing their savings as a result of the stock market crash.

• Families losing their jobs as a result of underconsumption of goods.

• Families sending their children to live with relatives due to unemployment.

The​ (a)   is where shares of companies are bought and sold.

• stock market
• super market
• depression
• bank

Communities, like the one in this picture, where homeless Americans set up shacks to live in were called

• Hoovervilles

• Roosevelt Islands

• Tenements

• Levittowns

Which president didn't feel like it was his job to help Americans recover from the Great Depression?

• Herbert Hoover

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Calvin Coolidge

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

On what day did the "bottom fall out" of the stock market becoming one of the leading causes of the Great Depression?

• September 29, 1929

• October 29, 1929

• January 21, 2019

• November 29, 1929