Causes
Response
Human Impact
New Deal
Miscellaneous
100
On October 29, 1929 stock prices plummeted. This event is referred to as:
What is Black Tuesday or the Stock Market Crash
100
FDR's plan to end the Great Depression was known as this:
What is the New Deal
100
Shantytowns made of cardboard and other salvaged materials were known as:
What are Hoovervilles
100
The beginning of Roosevelt's first term in which he passed more than 15 major bills into law is known as:
What is the first 100 days
100
During Hoover's presidency an empty pocket turned inside- out was known as:
What is a Hoover Flag
200
This event caused the mass closure of thousands of banks throughout the United States.
What is the Bank Run
200
President Hoover's plan to end the Great Depression was known as this:
What is Voluntarism
200
FDR succeeded in calming Americans' fears with radio broadcasts know as:
What are fireside chats
200
This federal program paid farmers not to plant crops in order reduce supply and raise prices:
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration
200
During Hoover's presidency an individual shack among a village of shacks was known as:
What is a Hoover Hotel
300
These were three causes of the Great Depression:
What is the Stock Market Crash, the Bank Run, and Overproduction and Underconsumption
300
This group of veterans marched on the capital with the goal in hopes of receiving early payment of funds promised by the federal government
What is The Bonus Army
300
These were two states hit especially hard by the Dust Bowl
What is Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas
300
This federal program provided jobs to young men working conservation projects:
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps
300
This was the highest rate of unemployment during the Great Depression:
What is 25%
400
This law, passed by Congress in 1930, slowed world trade and made the Great Depression worse:
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
400
Conservatives want less government influence and are associated with this political party:
What is the Republican Party
400
This process refers to land drying up and was one of the major causes of the Dust Bowl
What is Desertification
400
This was a work-relief organization that put more than 3 million Americans to work in its first year:
What is the Works Progress Administration
400
Buying stock by paying a percentage of a stock's price and borrowing the rest of the money from a broker is known as:
What is Buying on Margin
500
The Federal Reserve further weakened the economy in 1930 and 1931 by doing this:
What is raising interest rates or raising the discount rate
500
President Roosevelt adhered to this political ideology:
What is liberalism
500
Foreclosures, drought, and dust storms caused a mass exodus (migration) from the Dust Bowl. The term for this migration is:
What is Depopulation
500
After winning a landslide victory in 1935, FDR shifted his focus away from recovery and toward social and economic reforms. This period was known as:
What is the Second New Deal
500
These were two groups of Americans hit especially hard by unemployment:
Who are minorities, the young, and the old
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