The Great Depression and New Deal Review

What event is known as Black Tuesday?

• The day the New Deal was announced

• The day the Dust Bowl began

• The day the stock market crashed in 1929

• The day the Hawley-Smoot Tariff was passed

What was the primary cause of the Dust Bowl?

• Overproduction of crops

• Severe drought and poor farming practices

• The New Deal policies

• The Hawley-Smoot Tariff

What was the main goal of the New Deal?

• To increase tariffs on imported goods

• To provide immediate relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression

• To end the Dust Bowl

• To rebuild the stock market

What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?

• A program to provide jobs during the Great Depression

• A law that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels

• A relief program for farmers affected by the Dust Bowl

• A banking reform act

What were Hoovervilles?

• New towns built under the New Deal

• Areas affected by the Dust Bowl

• Shantytowns built by homeless people during the Great Depression

• Banks that survived the Bank Holiday

What was the Bank Holiday?

• A day to celebrate the end of the Great Depression

• A period when all banks were closed to prevent mass withdrawals

• A holiday introduced by the New Deal

• The day the stock market reopened after Black Tuesday

What is Social Security?

• A tax on imported goods

• A program to help the elderly, unemployed, and disabled

• A law to protect bank deposits

• A relief effort for those affected by the Dust Bowl

Which of the following was an effect of the Dust Bowl?

• Increased tariffs on imported goods

• Massive migration to California and other states

• The creation of Social Security

• The establishment of Hoovervilles

How did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff impact the global economy during the Great Depression?

• It provided financial relief to struggling farmers.

• It led to an increase in global trade.

• It worsened the Great Depression by reducing international trade.

• It had no significant impact on the global economy.

What was one of the purposes of the New Deal's Bank Holiday?

• To allow banks to adjust their interest rates

• To prevent a total collapse of the banking system by stopping mass withdrawals

• To celebrate the end of the Great Depression

• To introduce new currency