One of the causes of the Depression was that individuals lost their entire savings because the only paid a fraction of the stock's worth, and using credit for the rest, and could not pay back the loan after the crash. This practice was called this.
What is margin buying?
100
These shanty towns were nicknamed after the President blamed for the Great Depression because people felt that he was responsible for the suffering of the poor.
What are "Hoovervilles"?
100
This New Deal program called for a bank holiday and immediate closure of all banks to decide whether they were fiscally stable.
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
100
This was the goal of the WPA during the New Deal era.
What is The Works Progress Administration employed 2–3 million people who worked on depression era public works projects?
100
List 1 New Deal program for each goal of the New Deal; Relief, Recovery, and Reform
What is answers will vary?
200
The value of companies during the 1920's were artificially inflated because stocks and bond trading were __________.
What is uncontrolled?
200
Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas were the 3 states most affected by this.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
This New Deal program encouraged farmers to destroy crops and livestock in order to raise prices, despite public need for both.
What is the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)?
200
Of the 4, this New Deal Program is still being run today: A) Social Security Administration;
B) International Monetary Fund;
C) National Recovery Administration;
D) the World Bank
What is A) the Social Security Administration?
200
One of the causes of the Great Depression was that U.S. capitalists invested in this and lost millions in hard currency and capital.
What is the stock market?
300
A number of key basic industries were barely turning a profit in the late 1920's because of this.
What is overproduction?
300
Americans living in the Dust Bowl area eventually moved here in an attempt to find work and improve their living conditions.
What is the west coast (mostly California)?
300
This program provided new jobs, cheap electric power, flood control, and recreation for its region.
What is the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?
300
In June 1934, this New Deal program was established by Congress to regulate the stock market and prevent insider trading.
What is the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)?
300
Panicked investors tried to sell off all of their stock holdings before the market collapse on October 29, 1929. This day is named this.
What is Black Tuesday?
400
Because of the availability of this for the first time in the 1920's, consumers racked up high debts which they could not pay off due to falling wages and unavailability of work.
What is credit?
400
While the overall unemployment rate hovered
at about 25 percent during the Great
Depression, the unemployment rate among
African Americans was approximately this percentage.
What is 50%?
400
This New Deal agency increased the stability of financial institutions during the Great Depression by offering protection of money in the event of a bank failure.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
400
This New Deal program led to the construction and improvement of over 600,000 miles of roads and the building of over 800 airports.
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)?
400
The federal government's power increased as a result of this.
What is the New Deal?
500
Agricultural practices that included top soil being removed by newer tractors breaking up prairie grasslands and available
farm lands being overproduced helped create this region during the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
500
In an effort to reduce unemployment in the United States, the United States government did this to Latinos.
What is deported them?
500
This program created during FDR's presidency continues to provide home loans for mortgages today.
What is FHA (Federal Housing Administation)?
500
New Deal programs, such as the Civilian
Conservation Corps and the Works Progress
Administration, were intended to help
__________.
What is unemployed men?
500
This is the reason many conservatives opposed the New Deal.
What is they felt the New Deal was interfering with the free market economy and a movement toward socialism?