What happened to the unemployment rate during the Great Depression? What happened peoples wages?
What is The unemployment rate quadrapled, wages were cut in half.
100
What is a stock.
What is A piece of paper, that represents a share in a company.
100
What years make up the Great Depression
What is 1929-1940
100
What was the first 6 months of FDR's Administration called
What is The First Hundered Days.
200
What act provided aid to elderly, and, through the states, to individuals temporarily unemployed.
What is Social Security
200
What happened to 1,000 families per day during the Depression.
What is Beginning in 1933 1,000 families lost their homes every day.
200
What is buying on the margin.
Borrowing money to purchase a stock, and paying only a percentage for the stock.
200
The stock market collapsed because everyone was trying to sell their stocks. Day is known as Black Tuesday.
What happened on Tuesday, October 29, 1929 that set the stage for the Great Depression. What is that day called
200
What were the weekly radio addresses given by FDR called
What is Fireside Chats
300
What program raised agricultural prices by paying farmers to reduce the amount of crops and animals sold on the market.Agricultural Adjustment Adminstration (AAA)
What is Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
300
What percentage of children became homeless during the Great Depression?
What is about 250,000
300
What is a pension
What is A sum of money paid to a retired person, usually on a monthly basis
300
What happened to the banks as a result of the stock market crash, and why?
What is Many banks had invested heavily in the stock market or loaned people money on margin. After crash went bankrupt because of this.
300
What are the names of the set of programs adopted under Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal
400
What program guaranteed bank deposits to help people regain confidence that their money was safe in banks, and how much does this program guarantee today. FDIC, and 250,000
What is the FDIC, and $250,000 today
400
What was the impact of the Great Depression on family income. Family income went from _______ to below this _____________ during the Depression.
What is Family income went from an average of $2300 to below $1500
400
What is a "Okie".
What is Term used to describe those who migrated from places like Oklahoma (because of the Dust Bowl) to states like California.
400
What were some of the causes of the Great Depression?
What is Bank Failures, Drought conditions, American Economic Policies, and Stock Market Crash.
400
How did Roosevelt differ from Jefferson on the role of government?
What is Jefferson believed government should (govern least), Roosevelt believed government should help needy (govern more).
500
What is the program that developed electricity and other resources in the impoverished Tennessee River Valley?
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
500
What percentage of children between 16 to 24 were neither in school nor working.
What is 40% of young people from age 16 to 24 were neither in school nor working.
500
What was the Dust Bowl.
What is a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage.
500
What common tactic did wealthy business men use to manipulate a stock prices?
What is * Would pool their money in a worthless stock
* get newspapers to say stock was good so people would buy it.
* As pay by stock price would continue to go up
* When price went up as high as they thought it could go the wealthy men would take their money out.
* stock would crash.
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Were FDR's programs effective in ending the Great Depression? How did the Great Depression end? Explain
No, while they helped many in need, the depression lingered on until World War 2. WW2 ended depression by putting America back to work making products (weapons) for the world.