Origins of The Great Depression
The Government's Changing Views
The New Deal: What it Got Right
New Deal Flaws
The Great Depression: lasting effects
100

The event that is considered the starting point of the Great Depression

The stock market crash of 1929

100

This French term was used to describe government intervention in the economy before Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Laissez-Faire

100

This New Deal program aimed to provide jobs through public works projects

The Works Progress Administration (WPA)

100

This group of Americans often felt left out of New Deal programs

African Americans

100

What Depression-era safety net still sends out checks to retirees today?

Social Security

200

Which President was in office when the Great Depression began?

Herbert Hoover


200

This New Deal program was created to provide pensions for the elderly

Social Security

200

This New Deal agency focused on regulating the stock market

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

200

This New Deal program faced criticism for causing environmental damage through its projects

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

200

New Deal politics allow workers to this day to form this type of group, traditionally to advocate for their interests in the workplace 

Union

300

What was the name given to the region experiencing severe droughts? 

The Dust bowl

300

The Federal Government Insurance Corporation was created by this 1933 act, which separated commercial and investment banking?

Glass-Steagall Banking Act

300

Monumental construction project that sits on the Colorado River 

Hoover Dam

300

Regarded as the most important "voice of protest", This Louisiana Senator proposed a Share Our Wealth program

Huey Long

300

This type of labor is no longer practiced thanks to the National Industry Recovery Act

Child Labor

400

What industry was hit the hardest initially by the Great Depression?

Banking

400

This agency protects bank depositors against the loss of insured deposits in the event of a bank failure 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

400

This organization created in 1933 offered cash incentives to farmers in an effort to raise the prices of agricultural commodities

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

400

Despite New Deal efforts, this remained stubbornly high by the end of the 1930s?

Unemployment

400

After the New Deal, Americans came to see the government as an ally, as opposed to being previously seen as this term   

A "government out of sight"

500

How did market behavior affect the Great Depression? (2 words)

Overproduction;Underconsumption

500

The President that initiated the New Deal programs?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

500

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) built these along the Tennessee River to bring economic stability to a chronically depressed region

Hydroelectric Dams

500

The day that The Supreme Court ruled the NRA unconstitutional is referred to as?

Black Monday

500

This Bill afforded New Deal-style social benefits to veterans

G.I. Bill

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