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President Hoover and The Great Depression
President Roosevelt
and The New Deal
New Deal Terms
Farming and The Great Depression
Great Depression:
any topic
100
Who won the presidential election of 1928?
Herbert Hoover
100
What New Deal program reflected FDR's concern with the environment?
The Civilian Conservation Corps
100
What is an arrangement in which consumers agree to buy now and pay later?
Credit
100
What area of farming actually increased?
Farmer's debt
100
What was money and food given to the poor called?
direct relief
200
What Democrat lost the election of 1928?
Alfred E. Smith
200
What New Deal program was most responsible for creating new jobs?
Works Progress Administration
200
What are extremely risky business practices that try to make a quick profit?
Speculation
200
Which of the following did not cause the dust bowl: drought, winds, thick prairie grass, or overproduction of crops?
Thick prairie grasses
200
Who wrote the "Grapes of Wrath"?
John Steinbeck
300
After the stock market crash, what did Hoover do to try and help the economy?
By asking businesses not to lay off employees
300
Who was the first woman to serve in a cabinet?
Frances Perkins
300
What is the stock market crash of October 29, 1929?
Black Tuesday
300
When the government decreased farm surpluses, it was trying to:
raise farm prices
300
To help farmers, The McNary-Haugen bill would have mandated:
Price supports
400
Which candidates ran for president in 1932?
Hoover and FDR
400
What is buying stock on margin?
borrowing money to help pay for the stock.
400
What is a widely used measure of the stock market's health?
Dow Jones Industrial Average
400
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act trying to do?
raise farm prices
400
What is the period from 1929 to 1940 called?
The Great Depression
500
What was the Bonus Army?
World War I veterans
500
Who claimed the new deal was inadequate and wanted to "Share our Wealth"
Huey Long
500
What reduced the flow of goods into the US?
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
500
What did the Supreme Court rule as unconstitutional because it should be regulated by the states?
Agricultural Adjustment Act
500
What was the name of men who rode the rails as they searched for work?
Hobos