Hoover
What Act caused exports to decrease in the United States and around the world?
The Smoot Hawley Tariff Act
The collapse of these businesses caused people to lose their savings and prevented many others from getting loans they needed.
Banks
What was Roosevelt's plan to fix the great depression called?
The New Deal
What is a tariff?
A tax on foreign goods
What month is Mr. Prussman's birthday
December
This project was created by the Hoover administration, and once it was completed it provided electricity, water, and jobs to Southern California and Nevada
Hoover Dam
This was a natural disaster that left many farmers unable to produce crops for years
The dust bowl
This program created by congress provided benefits to retired American workers and the disabled that were unable to continue working.
Social Security Act
What color is Mr. Prussman's eyes
dark blue
How many siblings does Mr. Prussman have?
Bonus: Is Mr. Prussman the oldest, middle, or youngest?
1
Bonus: oldest
Rugged Individualism
Stock Market
In order to pay for for the programs of the New Deal, this had to be increased, because the government began to spend more money than it was able to bring in through tax revenue.
National Debt
What was the highest number unemployment reached in America?
Bonus: what year did it reach that number?
25%
1933
What's Mr. Prussman's middle name?
Gregory
Why did Hoover seemingly do little to prevent the great depression in the beginning?
He believed in a smaller, weaker government.
This term refers to the government's ability to increase or decrease the amount of currency in circulation. Hoover limited the amount of it while Roosevelt increased it.
Money supply
What did the Tennessee Valley Authority do?
Many historians credit this event for ending the Great Depression
WWII
What's Mr. Prussman's favorite song?
Skinny Love, Bon Iver
What program did Hoover create that provided tax cuts, loans and financial aid to businesses and the wealthy?
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation
The difference between social classes during the great depression, this left many people with the inability to consume American products.
Income gap
What did the Agricultural Adjustment Act do?
farmers got subsidies in exchange for limiting production for crops
Name the seven causes of the great depression
overproduction
underconsumption
stock market crash
money supply
Banking Crisis
Tariffs
Income Gap
If Mr. Prussman wasn't a teacher, what would he be?
A journalist or work on a political campaign