1. Chapter 14 The Great Depression
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Chapter 14
The Great Depression

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3. Great Depression-$100 Black Tuesday is the day this happened.
The stock market crashed?

4. Great Depression-$200 What were hoboes?
Men and boys who rode the rails in search for work were called this
What were hoboes?

5. Great Depression-$300 The unemployment rate during the depression.
What was 25%.

6. Great Depression-$400 The Hawley-Smoot Tariff did this to world trade.
What is drop it dramatically.

7. Great Depression-$500
Economic signs that the economy was sick in the 1920s.
What was a decline in new home building ?

8. Politics$100
These people made up the Bonus Army that marched on Washington.
Who were World War I veterans and their families?

9. Politics-$200
This political group had the most success in the election of 1932.
Who were the Democrats?

10. Politics-$300
This group argued that FDR’s policies made the federal govt too large and too powerful.
Who were the Conservatives?

11. Politics-$400 This president did NOT support direct relief.
Who was Hoover?

12. Politics-$500 The causes of the Great Depression.
What were tariffs on foreign goods, the farm sector crisis, the availability of easy credit, and the unequal distribution of income?

13. History-$100 What was voluntary cooperation?
Hoover’s approach to the Depression economy was based on a belief in this.
What was voluntary cooperation?

14. History- $200
Giving payments or food to the poor from the govt describes this type of relief.
What is direct relief?

15. History- $300
Many children suffered from diet-related diseases during this time period.
What was the depression?

16. History-$400 The causes of the Dust Bowl.
What was a drought, high winds, overproduction of crops, and the stripping of prairie grasses?

17. History- $500
The main purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
What was to give emergency help to banks, life insurance companies, RRs and other large businesses?

18. Economics-$100 Borrowing money to help pay for a stock.
What was buying on margin?

19. Economics $200
Buying stocks on the chance of a quick profit without considering risks.
What is speculation?

20. Economics- $300
The aim of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act?
What is to prevent farmers and homeowners from losing their property?

21. Economics-$400 What is an indicator of a weak economy?
Decline in new home building is an indicator of this.
What is an indicator of a weak economy?

22. Economics-$500
One way in which Hoover tried to help the economy was to ask businesses to do this.
What is not lay off employees.

23. New Deal-$100
Programs designed to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression and created by FDR.
What was the New Deal?

24. New Deal-$200
Team of advisors to FDR. Made up of professors, lawyers, and journalists.
What was the “Brain Trust”?

25. New Deal-$300 What was the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Program that gave men, ages 18-25, jobs to build roads, create parks, plant trees, and help with soil erosion and flood control.
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps?

26. New Deal-$400 Under the AAA, farmers were paid to NOT do this.
What was paid not to farm certain amounts of land?

27. New Deal-$500 What was the Public Works Administration?
This gave money to states to create jobs for the construction of schools.
What was the Public Works Administration?

28. Potpourri- $100 The 3 goals of the New Deal.
What were relief, recovery, and reform?

29. Potpourri - $200
The “Court-Packing Bill” would have allowed FDR to do this.
What was appoint 6 new justices?

30. Potpourri - $300 What was the Federal Securities Act?
This required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings and made them liable for false information.
What was the Federal Securities Act?

31. Potpourri - $400
The Supreme Court struck down the AAA because of this reason.
What is because it was a local matter and to be regulated by the states.

32. Potpourri - $500 What is deficit spending?
Spending more money than the govt receives is known as this. Also, FDR called this a necessary evil, usable only during an economic crisis.
What is deficit spending?

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