Great Depression The New Deal Review Became President
Great Depression & The New Deal Review
• Became President after Calvin Coolidge?
• Which industry suffered from low prices and a small depression before the rest of America’s industries were hit?
• Why were farmers hit so hard?
What were the causes of the Great Depression?
• Define buying on margin.
• Define Speculation.
• What is the barometer which measures the stock market’s worth?
October 24, 1929 is also known as?
• What was the trigger that hastened the Great Depression?
• Why did the stock market crash? (Think sell, sell)
• What is the GNP?
• How many business went out of buissness as a result of the stock market crash? • What percentage of the working population was unemployed?
• The toughest tax on imported goods ever passed by Congress was called the?
• What effects did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff have on world economics?
• Define the Great Depression.
• After the stock market crash many Americans rushed to banks to withdraw all of their money in the banks, which resulted in?
• Shantytowns built of scrap materials were known as?
• Which ethnic group had it the toughest during the Great Depression and why?
• Farmers had it bad enough but what made things even worse for farmers in the midwest?
• This are described as poor drifters who used trains to “drift” from town to town.
• What was Hoover’s ideology concerning how American’s could pull themselves out of their economic troubles? Describe.
• This project cost 700 million jobs and provided thousands of jobs, and would result in the tallest dam in the world when it was completed.
• Hoover’s reaction to the growing economic problems could be described as?
• This aided banks in performing their daily tasks during the Great Depression, and would later loan money to Farms, Railroads, and public works, what is this program called?
• What was the Bonus Army?
• Why would Hoover call the Bonus Army “Communists and Criminals? ”
• What action did Hoover take against the Bonus Army?
• Will Hoover be reelected, if not who becomes the next president of the United States?
• FDR’s program to combat the Great Depression?
• Did the New Deal end the Great Depression?
• Schools, roads, bridges, and dams are also known as?
• Who played an important role in FDR’s presidency?
• Why was FDR’s mobility limited?
• What were Roosevelt’s 3 R’s?
• Roosevelt would describe what he was doing to fight the Great Depression to the American people in this talks. What were they called?
• Roosevelt closed these within the first 100 days of being in office?
• This act insured bank accounts up to 2500 dollars. • This act made buying on margin illegal.
• What became the governing body or enforcement commission over the Stock Market?
• What were the Goals of the AAA and the NIRA? (Remember their goals were similar they just worked with different groups. )
• What was the HOLC and what was it designed to do?
• Describe the NRA. (Not National Rifle Association)
• What was the TVA? • What were the two controversies we discussed involving the TVA?
• This New Deal program took young unmarried males out of cities and put them to work building parks and planting trees, what was it called?
• This New Deal program gave people small jobs to build up their self-esteem and provide them with some financial support provided by the state. What New Deal program is this?
• Which national park was founded during the New Deal covering 300, 000 acres in North Carolina and Tennessee?
• This unconstitutional attempt to obtain favorable rulings in the Supreme Court by FDR is known as?
• This Second New Deal program provided jobs to artists, writers, and actors. What was it called?
• What act still takes money out of your pay check today and was designed to aid the elderly, dependent children, and became America’s first “insurance”?
• This act provided a “Bill of Rights” for workers what was it called?
Did the New Deal end the Great Depression? What did the New Deal accomplish?
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