Great Depression 1
Great Depression 2
Who Said It?
Great Depression 4
Great Depression 5
100
He was the United States president that gave "relief" to the people during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
After the stock market crash, people rushed to their banks causing this.
What is Banks closing down/Bank runs?
100
"We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family..."
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
100
This was the First Lady during the late years of the Great Depression.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
100
In what decade did the Great Depression mostly occur?
What are the 1930's?
200
This term is used to describe the region of the American midwest that suffered a devastating drought and massive dirt storms during the 1930's.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
This event is often considered to be the starting point of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
200
"The business of America is business."
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
200
True or False: The Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance were important events during the Great Depression.
What is false?
200
True or False. When the stock market crashed, many people couldn't pay back the money they had borrowed.
What is true?
300
__________ became very popular during the Great Depression because it was hard for parents to take care of their children.
What are orphanages?
300
True or False: A depression is a time when industry is booming and almost all people are employed.
What is false?
300
"The world must be made safe for democracy."
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
What is the name of the relief programs introduce by FDR during the Great Depression.
A) The Act of Relief
B) Relief Act
C) New Deal
D) Newton Deal
What is B) New Deal?
300
He was the United States president during the early years of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
The unemployed and poor often lived in "shanty towns." They were often referred to as.
What are Hoovervilles?
400
This term means "the lack of something" or "not having enough".
What is Scare/Scarcity
400
"We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our dark-skinned selves without fear or shame! If White people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter."
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
This major event followed the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
400
Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Who is Herbert Hoover?
500
What was a basic cause of The Great Depression.
a) too many goods being produces and not enough people buying them.
b) excessive profits for farmers and their families.
c) increased wages for workers meant that too much money was being made.
d) people were being taxed at a high level and they were unhappy
What is a) overproduction of consumer goods?
500
During the Great Depression many people struggled to afford:
A) Housing
B) Food
C) Luxury Items
D) All of the above
D) All of the above
500
He is the only United States President to have served 4 terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
500
President FDR's policies during the Great Depression shows his belief that?
A) The government should never become involved in the economy.
B) The government should step in and help in the economy.
C) The Great Depression was caused by labor union strikes.
D) None of the Above
B) The government should step in and help in the economy.
500
This was created to address issues the African American community was facing.
What is the Black Cabinet?
600
The ____ _____ is where brokers and traders can buy and sell stocks.
Stock Market
600
When the market is strong and doing well it is said to be a _____ market.
bull
600
As a result of the failure of their farms due to the Dust Bowl, many people moved to _____ to find farming work.
The West / California
600
If many people are not employed, they are not making money. If people are not making money _______.
They are not buying products / companies don't do well.
600
When the market is weak and not doing well it is said to be a _____ market.
bear
700
What kind of line are the people in this picture standing in?
What is a Bread Line?
700
Companies were under the assumption that they were making a lot of money because they were selling a lot of products. However, this wasn't true because most people got their products using ______ ______ and did not make their payments.
installment plans / buying on credit
700
Why did USA issue tariffs on imports during the Depression- why was it good for USA?
What was Protect American Jobs
700
A big factor leading to the failure of banks was people buying on margin. This is when _______.
people take out a loan to buy stock.
700
Who made this image famous
Who was Dorothea Lange?
800
The program FDR set up in part of his New Deal, to give retired people their money.
What is Social Security?
800
The Program of the New Deal that insured American's deposits in the bank.
What is FDIC?
800
"Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!"
Who is Claude McKay?
800
FDR gave encouraging radio speeches weekly to the American people?
A) State of the Union Addresses
B) Fireside Chats
C) Civilian Conservation Corps
D) Federal Emergency Relief Act
B) Fireside Chats
800
Many people left the great plains during the drought and went to California, they were called
What is is an Oakie?
900
In 1929, the top 5% of income earners controlled 30% of the nation’s wealth while the bottom 40% of income earners controlled 12.5%. As a cause for the Great Depression, what is this phenomenon known as?
What is the unequal distribution of wealth?
900
Borrowing money to purchase stock is called...
What is buying on margin?
900
List 3 Causes of the Dust Bowl
1. What is a drought
2. What is high winds
3. What is over farming
4. What is loss of prairie grasses
900
Compare and Contrast how President Hoover dealt with the Great Depression and how FDR dealt with it?
Hoover believed in laissez faire government and that it was dangerous for the government to have too much power and control the economy. FDR believed in a strong government and that it should step in and control the economy and spend money to create jobs and aide.
900
This New Deal program hired people to build dams and generators that provided electricity to people in rural areas.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
1000
Not having enough capital is the basic economic problem that most consumers in market economies like the United States deal with.
What is scarcity?
1000
Some critics who thought the New Deal went too far, believed that it gave the president too much __________.
What is authority?
1000
This New Deal program employed more than 8.5 million people to build roads, bridges, and airports.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
1000
This New Deal program organized workers into unions based on industry, not skill level.
What is the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)?
1000
This author wrote The Grapes of Wrath, about a family of farmers who had to move to find work during the Depression
Who is John Steinbeck?
1100
The protection of money in ________ is one of the lasting effects of the Great Depression.
What are banks?
1100
The court-packing bill proposed by FDR would have allowed him to do this.
What is appoint a new judge for every judge over the age of 70 who held a position on the Supreme Court? and raise the number of judges from 9-15
1100
FDR had problems with the Supreme Court because they ruled several of his New Deal programs ____________.
What is unconstitutional?
1100
Eleanor Roosevelt convinced FDR to create this to help young workers stay in school.
What is the National Youth Administration (NYA)?
1100
She was an African American educator appointed to Roosevelt's administration.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?