Great Depression Review

What did Herbert Hoover NOT do to tackle the Great Depression?

• Gave Federal money to States for public projects

• Gave Federal Money to businesses to revitalize the economy

• Cut Taxes and increased Government spending on projects

• Gave money to individual families for purchasing goods

What was the "Bonus Army?"

• A group of protestors urging the USA to go to war with Germany again

• A Group of Veterans seeking their cash bonus for fighting in WW1

• A socialist/communist group dedicated to overthrowing Hoover

What did the Civilian Conservation Corp do during the Great Depression?

• Provide young men with jobs preserving America's National Parks

• Provided jobs by having unemployed veterans act as security guards

• Raise employment and literacy by hiring women as teachers

What projects did the Tennessee Valley Authority manage?

• Local forestry/lumber jobs in the Smokey Mountains

• Dams, watersheds, and river control along the Tennessee River

• The building of Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Constructing entertainment venues, such as Neyland Stadium in Knoxville

What was the dust bowl?

• An annual football game started during the Great Depression

• The nickname for hobo/homeless towns during the Depression

• A combination of dry soil, soil erosion, and wind storms that devastated the Great Plains

What idea of Francis Townsend was used in the New Deal by FDR?

• Seizing the banks

• Printing more money

• Building public works projects

• Social Security

Who was Huey Long?

• The Republican challenger to Roosevelt in two elections

• A Democrat governor of Louisiana who criticized FDR for not being radical enough

• A catholic priest who scrutinized FDR on Television

What was the result of FDR's court-packing scheme?

• Democrats and Republicans alike began to support him less

• The Supreme court expanded to 9 justices (judges)

• FDR lost the next election as voters hated his idea

• Canada threatened war with the United States