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2. $100 Question from Road To Depression
What event occurred on Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929)?

3. $100 Answer from Road To Depression
The Stock Market Crashed.
Investors sold more than 16 million shares of stock causing the stock market to crash.

4. $200 Question from Road To Depression
European countries reacted to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff by doing this.

5. $200 Answer from Road To Depression
Passing high protective tariffs of their own

6. $300 Question from Road To Depression
This group of individuals experienced an early depression in the 1920s.

7. $300 Answer from Road To Depression
Farmers

8. $400 Question from Road To Depression
What consumer (you) factors helped hide economic problems in the 1920s?

9. $400 Answer from Road To Depression
(Buying on Credit)
Americans were purchasing many consumer goods on credit.

10. $500 Question from Road To Depression
List at least four of the eight major causes of the Great Depression.
(All of which started in the 1920s)

11. $500 Answer from Road To Depression
Consumers buying on credit
Businesses failed
Farms failed
Banks failed
International trade dropped by 70%
Prices on agricultural products dropped
Unemployment rose
Stock market speculation

12. $100 Question from Alphabet Soup
This organization planted millions of trees.

13. $100 Answer from Alphabet Soup
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps

14. $200 Question from Alphabet Soup
Roosevelt created the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate this.

15. $200 Answer from Alphabet Soup
Regulate the Stock Market

16. $300 Question from Alphabet Soup
This organization was created to insure peoples’ money and stop bank runs.

17. $300 Answer from Alphabet Soup
(FDIC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

18. $400 Question from Alphabet Soup
This New Deal program extended job opportunities to Mexican Americans and other minority youth?

19. $400 Answer from Alphabet Soup
(CCC)
Civilian Conservation Corps

20. $500 Question from Alphabet Soup
Critics disapproved of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) because it did this.

21. $500 Answer from Alphabet Soup
It gave the government direct control of a business

22. $100 Question from The New Deal
What was the chief complaint of conservatives against the New Deal?

23. $100 Answer from The New Deal
It made government too powerful.

24. $200 Question from The New Deal
The Rural Electrification Administration provided electricity to this group of individuals.

25. $200 Answer from The New Deal
Farmers

26. $300 Question from The New Deal
What was the long term effect of the NEW DEAL Programs?

27. $300 Answer from The New Deal
Large-scale federal programs

28. $400 Question from The New Deal
Why was The American Liberty League (ALL) formed?

29. $400 Answer from The New Deal
To oppose FDR’s New Deal

30. $500 Question from The New Deal
A significant flaw of this act meant that it did not apply to domestics or farm-workers at first.

31. $500 Answer from The New Deal
The Social Security Act

32. $100 Question to Review
How did the Great Depression impact families? How did the conditions of the time period emphasize the usage of the term Great Depression? How did families cope with hard times?

33. See Great Depression ClassNotes
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See Great Depression ClassNotes

34. $200 Question to Review
Why was President Hoover unsuccessful in ending the Great Depression? What were two ideas Hoover had that led to his cautious response to the economic troubles of the United States? Why do you think these ideas failed?

35. See Great Depression Class Notes
$200 Answer
See Great Depression Class Notes

36. $300 Question to Review
What was significant about President Franklin Roosevelt’s “First Hundred Days” in office? What were three of the programs created during this First New Deal? Which one do you think had the most impact in helping Americans during these tough times? Why?

37. $300 Answer
See New Deal Packet and list of programs

38. $400 Question
How did minorities fair during the Great Depression? Why do you think minorities did not benefit as much from the numerous government programs of the New Deal?

39. See New Deal Packet (Letter A)
$400 Answer
See New Deal Packet (Letter A)

40. $500 Questions to Review
What two government programs created during the Great Depression do you consider successful? Why? What was one program you think failed? Why?

41. Just make sure you can support your claim with evidence.
$500 Answer
Just make sure you can support your claim with evidence.

42. $100 Question from Miscellaneous
This President responded cautiously to the Great Depression he thought the business cycle would correct itself.

43. $100 Answer from Miscellaneous
President Hoover

44. $200 Question from Miscellaneous
What economic condition did economist John Maynard Keynes believe caused the Great Depression?

45. $200 Answer from Miscellaneous
Lack of government intervention
(Keynesian Economics: The government needs to prime the pump)

46. $300 Question from Miscellaneous
The policy of volunteerism called for this.

47. $300 Answer from Miscellaneous
Companies should volunteer to keep their doors open and not fire employees.

48. $400 Question from Miscellaneous
Both of these groups faced discrimination when competing with white Americans for a limited number of jobs.

49. $400 Answer from Miscellaneous
Mexican Americans and African Americans

50. $500 Question from Miscellaneous
Congress instituted this organization to loan money to banks so that they could lend money to businesses to stimulate economic activity.
“A Trickle Down Program”

51. $500 Answer from Miscellaneous
(RFC)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation

52. Final Jeopardy Hint: Essay
What were three long term and two short term causes of the Great Depression? Which cause do you think had the most impact? Why?

53. Final Jeopardy Answers
Long Term Causes
Consumers buying on credit
World wide economic decline (International trade dropped by 70%)
Overproduction (Business failed / Farms Failed)
Short Term Causes
Stock Market Crash (Due to Speculation)
Banks Failed (Due to bank runs)