1. Great Depression and New Deal
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2. ND Programs
Causes of the GD
Responses to the GD
Dust Bowl
Misc. 10 20 30 40 50

3. 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

4. Answer 1 – 10
Civilian Conservation Corps

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

6. Answer 1 – 20
Tennessee Valley Authority

7. 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.

8. Answer 1 – 30
Works Progress Administration

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

10. Answer 1 – 40
Securities and Exchange Commission

11. 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

12. Answer 1 – 50
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

13. 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

14. Answer 2 – 10
1929 Stock Market Crash

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

16. Answer 2 – 20
Unemployment Rate

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

18. Answer 2 – 30
Installment Plans

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

20. Answer 2 – 40
Purchasing

21. 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.

22. Answer 2 – 50
Bank Failure

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

24. Answer 3 – 10
The New Deal

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

26. Answer 3 – 20
Radicalism

27. 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 relief

28. Answer 3 – 30
Conservatism

29. 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.

30. Answer 3 – 40
Liberalism

31. 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.

32. Answer 3 – 50
Hawley-Smoot Tariff

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

34. Answer 4 – 10
John Steinbeck

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

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

37. Question
Name two causes of the Dust Bowl

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

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

40. Answer 4 – 40
California

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

42. Answer 4 – 50
Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas

43. 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.

44. Answer 5 – 10
Bonus Army

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

46. Answer 5 – 20
Fireside Chats

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

48. Answer 5 – 30
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

50. Answer 5 – 40
Production of war material for foreign allies

51. 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?

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