ND Programs Causes of the GD Responses to the GD Dust BowlMisc

Question designed to provide jobs for young men, to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression in the United States while at the same time implementing a general natural resource conservation program in every state and territory

Answer 1 – 10 Civilian Conservation Corps

Question built dams, power lines, and power plants to bring electricity to hundreds of thousands of rural southern homes

Answer 1 – 20 Tennessee Valley Authority

Question Employed millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.Sponsored many artists who struggled to find work during the depression era.

Answer 1 – 30 Works Progress Administration

Question Agency that regulates the stock market and to scrutinize all companies and their stocks.

Answer 1 – 40 Securities and Exchange Commission

Question Sured up the banking system by protecting people’s savings against loss in the event of a bank failure. Banks had to keep enough money on reserve to minimize the chance of collapse due to a lack of immediately available funds

Answer 1 – 50 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Question Event in which investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors

Answer 2 – Stock Market Crash

Question A increase in the ________________ rate was a cause of the Great Depression.

Answer 2 – 20 Unemployment Rate

Question Default on the these caused millions to lose their cars and various other appliances.

Answer 2 – 30 Installment Plans

Question Reduction in _____________ led to a drop in production and eventual unemployment.

Answer 2 – 40 Purchasing

Question occurs when a bank is unable to meet its obligations to its depositors or other creditors because it has become insolvent or is unable to meet its liabilities.

Answer 2 – 50 Bank Failure

Question Response to the Great Depression consisting of recovery, reform, and regulation all funded by the Federal Government.

Answer 3 – 10 The New Deal

Question Political philosophy that seeks immediate change in government policy. Supports change through revolutionary means.

Answer 3 – 20 Radicalism

Question Political philosophy of Herbert Hoover. Favours tradition and opposes external forces for change. Pushes for small government, low taxes, limited regulation, and free enterprise. Values personal responsibility over government reliefsmall government

Answer 3 – 30 Conservatism

Question A belief in a government, large in size, that is active in regulating the economy and society to achieve what it perceives as fairness. Strives to protect people from downturns in the economy and to create a more just social order.

Answer 3 – 40 Liberalism

Question This act passed during the Hoover administration charged a high tax on imports coming in from foreign countries. The legislation backfired causing a major drop in World Trade.

Answer 3 – 50 Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question Author who wrote the Grapes of Wrath. A fictional novel about life during the Dust Bowl.

Answer 4 – 10 John Steinbeck

Question During the Dust Bowl, the government would arrange this, in an effort to raise the prices of agricultural products

Answer 4 – 20 Burn Crops/withhold them from the market

Question Name two causes of the Dust Bowl

Answer 4 – 30 Plowing too much of the land/new tractors Prolonged drought Flat land with high winds

Question Many of the people affected by the Dust Bowl moved here. (over 200,000)

Answer 4 – 40 California

Question In what three states was the Dust Bowl most severe?

Answer 4 – 50 Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas

Question assemblage of some 43,000 marchers— 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.

Answer 5 – 10 Bonus Army

Question Radio addresses given by FDR where he outlined his plans for bringing America out of the Great Depression

Answer 5 – 20 Fireside Chats

Question Important advisor to FDR in regard to domestic policy. Later named a delegate to the UN in London by Harry Truman

Answer 5 – 30 Eleanor Roosevelt

Question Outside of the New Deal, what most brought the US out of the Depression

Answer 5 – 40 Production of war material for foreign allies

Question During FDR’s presidency, he attempted to pass the Judicial Reform Bill which would have given him the ability to nominate 6 additional Supreme Court Justices. Why did it fail?

Answer 5 – 50 The Switch in Time that Saved the Nine