Multiple Choice
The national debt increased or decreased during FDR's presidential term?
increased
What area of the country was mostly affected by the Dust Bowl?
Midwest
An important achievement of this New Deal organization was the building of roads and highways. It also built schools and airports...
Works Progress Administration
The WPA is most credited for creating what?
JOBS
FDR's wife, Eleanor, is most credited for her advice in
domestic policy
In the 1920s, the economy and stock market APPEARED...
Healthy
What New Deal Program employed artists and writers?
WPA
What could be considered a sign that the 1920s economy was actually weakening?
uneven distribution of wealth
What WORD is best used to describe what FDR's programs did to the US government
EXPANDED
Who was most directly affected by the Great Depression?
farmers
The Social Security Act made the federal govenrment responsible for...
How did General MacArthur get the Bonus Army to leave the capital?
By using guns and gas
What was the purpose of the TVA?
It built dams which made rural electrification possible.
Which feature of the economic boom of the 1920’s contributed to the stock market crash of 1929?
Speculation of the Stock Market
the power of labor unions increased during the Great Depression because
legislation was passed that guaranteed government cooperation in favor of collective bargaining
Approximately what years did the Great Depression take place?
1929 to 1939
What were FDR's fireside chats?
radio programs in which he would explain his programs to the public.
Throughout most of the 1920s, how did most Americans feel about the economy?
Confident that business would continue to increase.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Securities and Exchange Commission established during the New Deal were important because they
restored public confidence in banking and stock market
What was Herbert Hoover's outlook on the way that the government should relieve the effects of the Great Depression?
Do nothing, eventually prosperity will trickle down.
The 3 main components of FDR’s New Deal were relief for the unemployed, economic repaid, and
Reform to precent another depression
During the Depression, many people felt that working women were...
taking away jobs from men.
One major criticism of FDR's New Deal in terms of spending was that...
He spent more than the government made.
The New Deal was?
A group of government programs created by FDR to relieve the US of the Great Depression
When farmers moved to escape the Dust Bowl, which direction did they typically move to?
West