Factors & Results
One major result of the Great Depression
unemployment
Which president introduced "The New Deal"?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What was the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment act)?
A Farm Assistance program that paid farmers to grow food and reduce available livestock.
What caused farmers to struggle after World War 1?
Farmers had produced a lot of goods and there ended up being too much food to sell, so prices went down.
What were the Major features of the New Deal?
Social Security
Federal Work programs
Environmental improvement programs
Farm assistance programs
Increased rights for labor
The Great depression was a time when...
a large number of people were hungry, unemployed, and homeless
What year was Roosevelt elected president?
1932
What was the program that provided monthly checks to the elderly, disabled, widows and orphans?
Social Security program
During the Great Depression, a severe drought occurred in the midwest. This area became known as
The Dust Bowl
Which New Deal program was in charge of building roads, schools, and adding employment opportunities?
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Major factors that caused the Great Depression
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Failure of banking system
high taxes on international trade
The President blamed for The Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
What was the Civilian Conservation Corp?
It was an environmental improvement plan
Again - what were the impacts of the Great Depression?
unemployment
banks failed
people were hungry and homeless
farmers struggled
One important change after the New Deal
the government became more involved in helping with jobs, housing, and farming
The Federal Reserve made the Great Depression worse in these ways...
not guaranteeing bank deposits, making it expensive to borrow money, failing the banking system
The president elected after Herbert Hoover
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What was the New Deal introduced by Roosevelt?
A large number of government programs designed to end the Great Depression
What was the Hawley-Smoot Tarriff (tax) meant to do?
to tax imported products so Americans would want to buy American products
What was the purpose of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
to guarantee money in the bank and stop bank failures
Again - the main causes of the Great Depression?
stock market crash
failure of banking system
high taxes (tariffs) on imported goods
What were Hoovervilles?
an area where homeless people built shacks out of scrap metal, wood, and cardboard during the 1930s.
What was the purpose of the TVA (Tennessee River Valley Association)?
to build hydroelectric dams, generate electricity, control floods
Name five things you remember about the Great Depression and the New Deal
See any of the answers on the Jeopardy board or in you study guide
Name a program created by the New Deal and what it was created to do:
WPA -(Works Progress Administration)- new jobs for unemployed
Social Security - provide an income for retired and disabled workers
AAA - (Agricultural Adjustment Act) farm assistance program
TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority - hire workers to build dams for electricity