STAAR
What was one factor that helped turn the Great Plains into the Dust Bowl in the 1930s?
A. Paying farmers to plant native grasses
B. Increased demand for tobacco after World War I
C. Numerous tornadoes occurring in the region
D. Intense drought in the region
D. Intense drought in the region
Farmer in the Great Plains were hit hard by this natural disaster?
What is the Dust Bowl
This U.S. president created the New Deal to help Americans during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This president was widely blamed for not doing enough to stop the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This economic event happened on October 29, 1929, and is often considered the start of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)?
Which statement best describes how investment in the stock market during the mid-to-late 1920s contributed to the Great Depression?
A. People were unable to repay the loans used to purchase stock
B. Government taxes on stock transactions made it difficult to repay investors
C. Financial institutions were not required to report earnings to stock investors
D. Foreign countries were not required to pay stockholder earnings immediately
A. People were unable to repay the loans used to purchase stocks
This group of Americans often lost jobs first and were last to be hired
Who are African Americans?
The New Deal focused on these three "R’s"
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This president’s plan, called the New Deal, aimed to provide relief, recovery, and reform.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Overproduction in this industry was one of the causes of the Great Depression, leading to falling prices and wages.
What is agriculture (or farming)?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed an increase in the number of supreme court justices because the court ruled against-
A. The gold standard
B. Some New Deal programs
C. Internment Camps
D. Some rationing programs
B. Some New Deal programs
These makeshift communities of homeless people were named after the presidents at the time
What are Hoovervilles?
This New Deal program gave unemployed young men jobs working in national parks, planting trees, and improving public lands.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
Roosevelt communicated directly with the American people through these informal radio speeches.
What are Fireside Chats?
This economic policy, where countries raised tariffs to protect their own economies, worsened the Depression by reducing international trade.
What is protectionism (or the Smoot-Hawley Tariff)?
Which situation motivated the repeal of the 18th Amendment prohibiting the manufacturing and sale of alcohol?
A. The need to generate revenue after protective tariffs in the 1920s
B. The need to ration the consumption of agricultural goods in the 1940s
C. The need to reduce the federal deficit after the Cold War
D. The need to promote economic recovery during the Great Depression
D. The need to promote economic recovery during the Great Depression
Many Dust Bowl farmers moved west to find this state, hoping to find jobs
What is California?
This New Deal agency provided jobs for construction projects like roads, bridges, and schools, giving millions of people work.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This group of World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand early payment of their bonuses.
What is the Bonus Army?
This economic imbalance, where the wealthy had much more money than the working class, contributed to the instability leading to the Great Depression.
What is income inequality?
For the purpose of enabling each State to furnish financial assistance, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, to aged needy individuals, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated.... for each fiscal year a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of the title - Social Security Act of 1935
How did the legislation excerpted above affect the relationship between the U.S. government and its citizens?
A. It allowed the government to tax investment income
B. It allowed people to have more direct input in government decisions
C. It made most people distrust the power of the government
D. it made the government more responsible for the people's economic welfare
D. It made the government more responsible for the people's economic welfare
During the early years of the Great Depression, many Americans rushed to withdraw all their money from banks out of fear the banks would collapse
What is a bank run?
This program, still around today, was created in 1935 to provide financial assistance to retirees, unemployed workers, and people with disabilities.
What is Social Security?
FDR’s plan to add more justices to the Supreme Court was known by this nickname.
What is the Court Packing Plan?
This practice, where people borrowed money to buy stocks, contributed to the market crash and worsened the economic crisis.
What is margin buying (or buying on margin)?