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2. Who was the photographer best know for pictures of the Depression?
Dorothea Lange

3. Who was the Democratic senator who wanted to take from the rich and give $5,000 a year to the poor?
Huey Long

4. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men?
John Steinbeck

5. Who was the Catholic priest who had a public radio program who wanted banks and utilities owned by the government and also hated Jews?
Charles Coughlin

6. Who was the former public health official who wanted the government to give $200 a month to people over 60?
Francis Townsend

7. How many justices did the Roosevelt want to have on the Supreme Court?15

8. What is the purpose of the Securities Exchange Commission?
regulates the stock market

9. During the Depression, what did the government try to protect consumers from?
banks failing

10. How does the Social Securities Act affect workers today?
by taxing workers’ wages

11. What does the Tennessee Valley Authority still provide people today?
electricity

12. What was a major result of Roosevelt’s New Deal on the government?
The government’s power increased.

13. New stocks had to be registered.
Why was the Federal Securities Act necessary to stabilize the economy during the Depression?
New stocks had to be registered.

14. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
What agency was set up to protect citizens from losing their money if a bank fails?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

15. The government became more responsible for people’s economic welfare.
How did the Social Securities Act of 1935 affect the relationship between the people and the government?
The government became more responsible for people’s economic welfare.

16. National Recovery Administration
What agency regulated wages, prices, and working conditions during the Depression?
National Recovery Administration

17. to pay veterans’ promised bonus early
What did thousands of WWI veterans want Congress to do when the marched in Washington D.C. in 1932?
to pay veterans’ promised bonus early

18. Violating the principle of checks and balances
What did critics charge Roosevelt with when he tried to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices in regards to violating the Constitution?
Violating the principle of checks and balances

19. During the Depression what was the worst effect of a bank failing?
People could not get their money out of the bank.

20. What did Hoover think the best way to help the people in the Depression?
He believed state and local governments should help those in need, not money from the government.

21. Some parts of the New Deal were declared unconstitutional.
What was the result of the Schecter Poultry Corporation v. U.S. in 1935?
Some parts of the New Deal were declared unconstitutional.

22. How did the power of the president change due to the Depression?
The President’s power grew.

23. What were problems banks had in the Depression?
Banks lost people’s money in the stock market, and bank runs caused all the money to be taken out of banks.

24. What was the main purpose of the Mexican Repatriation Act?
to send Mexican-American immigrants back to Mexico

25. What year did the stock market crash?
1929

26. Why did the government declare bank holidays?
to stop bank runs

27. What event ended the Great Depression?
WWII

28. What did Hoover blankets and Hoover flags show?
People blamed Hoover for the Depression.

29. What was it called when workers at General Motors stopped work and refused to leave the plant?
sit-down strike

30. Name 4 causes of the Depression.
unequal distribution of wealth, our monetary policy, stock market crash, overproduction of crops and products, high tariffs

31. How many times was Roosevelt elected to the presidency?4