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Hoover
Economic and Social Toll of the Great Depression
New Deal
Causes
Federal Government Protection
100
What is President Hoover's first name?
What is Herbert
100
What did unemployed Americans want to do?
What is Work
100
Who began weighing in on key New Deal programs?
What is Supreme Court
100
____________ puts too many goods in stores
What is overproduction?
100
Who did the Dust Bowl affect the most?
Who are Farmers?
200
What are Hoovervilles?
What is homeless shelter
200
Why did some farmers try to sell their farms during Great Depression?
What is only to find that their property values had sunk along with the economy
200
In what year were nearly one fourth of the workforce unemployed
What is 1933
200
Greater _________ led to greater profits for businesses
What is productivity?
200
What was social security designed to do?
What is economically support unemployed and retired Americans?
300
Who did the Reconstructions Finance Corporation issue loans to?
What are banks, railroads and big businesses
300
What did happen to the many farmers who could not sell there crops
What is they could not make mortgage payments to banks that had loaned them money
300
What president was the president that first attacked the problems in the financial sector?
Who is President Roosevelt?
300
What caused farm failures, bankruptcies, and layoffs?
What is Under consumption?
300
Who depended on government relief programs to survive?
Who were Disabled Americans and the Elderly?
400
What did Hoover hope the RFC stimulate?
What is economic growth
400
What is the legal process that caused higher homelessness?
What is Eviction
400
In what year did Congress pass the Banking Act?
What is 1933?
400
Between 1921 and 1929 did personal debt double or decrease?
What is double?
400
What organization from the New Deal was created in 1933?
What is Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
How many electoral votes did Hoover receive?
What is 59 (or 15.8 million)?
500
What was the physical condition that was caused by hunger?
What is malnutrition?
500
What did the Agricultural Adjustment Administration do?
What is aid farmers, reduce crop production and/or raising prices?
500
What plunged dramatically in early 1931?
What are stock prices?
500
Who did the Federal Emergency Relief Administration aid and help?
Who are the Hungry and Homeless?