FDR's Deals for Days
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was created after Black Tuesday to do what?
Answer: To regulate the stock market.
Which American novel depicts difficulties during the Great Depression?
Answer: John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.
What region of America was heavily impacted by the Dust Bowl?
The Great Plains
Describe the environmental factors leading to the Dust Bowl.
Answer: Drought and high winds combined with poor agricultural practices.
How does the Social Security Act (SSA) of 1935 affect citizens today?
Answer: Provides retirement income.
Which factors contributed to the Great Depression? (Name two)
Answer: Stock market over-speculation and crash, Overproduction of agricultural and industrial goods.
High unemployment, failing banks, an unregulated stock market, and agricultural collapse are all what type of issues?
Answer: Economic Issues
What might have reduced the effects of the Dust Bowl?
Answer: Improving water management.
(Answer: Adoption of soil conservation and sustainable farming techniques)
What was the purpose of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Answer: To create jobs through public works programs that included art and architecture.
What was one societal impact of the federal responses to the Great Depression that impacted citizens? Why did this occur?
Answer: Forced deportation of many U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. This happened due to the idea that Americans believed immigrants would compete for the already scarce jobs.
Despite major criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, he responded to the Great Depression by creating what?
Answer: new government relief programs such as the Social Security Act (SSA), Works, Progress Administration (WPA), Housing Act, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and many others.
How did the Dust Bowl affect American demographics?
Answer: Farmers from the Midwest migrated to California.
Which government agency protects consumer savings by insuring and monitoring the banking industry?
Answer: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
How did high U.S. tariffs on imports contribute to the Great Depression?
Answer: Other nations raised tariffs that cut U.S. exports.
Describe two ways the role of government changed due to New Deal legislation.
Answer: The federal government increased in power, became the largest employer, and The federal government became the economic, social, and political stabilizer.
Students will take a look at the graph on the slideshow and explain the data in the banking data table.
Answer is on the slideshow.
How did Roosevelt respond to opposition against the New Deal?
Answer: Argued that the government needed to act decisively.
What event signaled the beginning of the Great Depression, what was the date of this event, and what was the day called?
Answer: The crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
2nd Answer: This occurred on October 29th, 1929.
3rd Answer: The Day was called Black Tuesday.
What was the constitutional issue with Roosevelt's court packing?
Answer: It would weaken the separation of powers.
Students will take a look at two political cartoons and explain each of the cartoons.
250pts for each correct explanation.
Answers on slideshow.