Great Depression 1
Great Depression 2
Great Depression 3
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
True or False: The Great Depression was an economic downturn that occurred world-wide.
TRUE
100
What was the name of advisors who helped the President draft the New Deal?
Who is the Brain Trust
100
In what decade did the Great Depression mostly occur?
What are the 1930's?
200
Which term was used to the region of the American mid-west that suffered a devastating drought full of huge 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
Who Am I ?
FDR
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
True/False Suicide Rates rose following the Stock Market Crash.
What is True
300
True or False: A depression is a time when industry is booming and almost all people are employed.
What is false?
300
October 29, 1929 is also known by this name.
What is Black Tuesday?
300
What is the name of the relief programs introduce by FDR during the Great Depression.
What is the 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
True/False. A psychological effect of the Stock Market Crash led many to turn to a life of being thrifty and saving!!
What is true
400
This Hoover program gave emergency aid to business so they could stay open
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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 was the only U.S. President to serve 4 terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
500
Purpose: This authorized the Treasury Department to inspect the country's banks.
What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act
500
Helped sharecroppers, migrant workers and other poor farmers
What is the farm securities administration
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
Purpose: Under this system depositors in member banks were given security of knowing that if their bank were to collapse the federal government would refund their loses (insurance)
What is the FDIC
600
True/False: Movies were a way to escape from the troubles of the 1930's
True
700
This is an example of a ______ line
What were Bread Lines
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
This engineering wonder not only brought electricity and water to a region- it also put people to work!!
What is the Hoover Dam
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
President Hoover believed in Laissez Faire government?
A) The government should intervene in the economy.
B) The government should never intervene in the economy.
C) The Great Depression was caused by labor union strikes.
D) None of the Above
B) The government should never intervene in the economy.
800
FDR gave encouraging radio speeches weekly to the American people?
What is the Fireside Chats
800
Many people left the great plains during the drought and went to California, they were called
What is is an Okie?
900
List one of the 9 causes of the Great Depression that we talked aobut in class.
Several Answers Mrs. Day will accept
900
Borrowing money to purchase stock is called...
What is buying on margin?
900
What is one cause 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
Purpose: Prevent people with inside information about companies “rigging” the stock market for their own profit.
Securities and Exchange Commission
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
This group demanded that Hoover authorize early payment of a promised military bonus.
What is the Bonus Army?
1000
1930 U.S. law that dramatically raised tariffs on thousands of imported goods to protect American farmers and manufacturers,
What is the Hawley Smoot Tariff
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)?
1100
The protection of money in ________ is one of the lasting effects of the Great Depression.
What are banks?
1100
What agency did Hoover as to buys crops and keeps them off the market until prices rise
What is the Federal Farm Board
1100
What were the three R's of Roosevelt's New Deal
What is relief, recovery, reform
1100
Set prices on many products and established standards.
Goal was to promote recovery and end wage cuts, falling prices and layoffs.
What is the National Recovery Administration