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What decade are we covering with this test?
The 30s
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Who came up with the New Deal?
Roosevelt
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What is the only topic from section 3 that you need to know about?
Dust Bowl
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What is the topic covered by the chapter 25 political cartoon?
New Deal
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What was Black Tuesday?
The day the stock market crashed.
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Who is president during this time?
Roosevelt (FDR)
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What was the New Deal?
programs created by Roosevelt to help people & the economy during the Great Depression
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What is the Dust Bowl?
dust storms that swept through the Great Plains destroying all crops and farms.
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What do all of the medicine bottles in the cartoon represent?
all of the New Deal programs
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The stock market crashing led to the closure of over 2,000 __________.
Banks
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What event is going on in America throughout this decade?
The Great Depression
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Give me 1 New Deal program & explain what it did.
Answers will vary.
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What group of people was most severely affected by the Dust Bowl?
Farmers
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Give me 2 things that Uncle Sam symbolizes.
America, United States, federal government
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What is overproduction of goods?
making too many products that people already own; spending money to make things that no one is buying.
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What were the 3 causes of the Great Depression?
Buying on Margin, Buying on Credit, Overproduction of Goods
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Name 2 New Deal programs that are still in use today.
Workers Protection Agency (WPA), National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Social Security Administration (SSA), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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When people packed up and left states in the Great Plains region, they moved where?
California
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In the cartoon, the doctor is __________ and the nurse is _________.
Roosevelt / Congress
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Who did Roosevelt win the 1932 election from?
Herbert Hoover
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Explain what 'buying on margin' means.
borrowing money to purchase stocks with the hope of selling stocks at a higher price, paying back loan & keeping the profit.
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Give me 1 pro and 1 con about the New Deal.
Pro: saved banks, helped Ams. find jobs, expanded Am. with new roads, airports, land projects, restored farms, dams, TN River Valley, eliminated competition from foreign business Con: gave Roosevelt & govt. too much power, high cost of programs raised taxes, helped business interests more than the people
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What caused the Dust Bowl to occur in the first place?
Severe drought in the early 30s.
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What is the main idea of the cartoon?
FDR is helping America recover from the Great Depression using the New Deal programs with the assistance of Congress.
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Roosevelt had what illness that caused him to become paralyzed from the waist down?
Polio
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