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Great Depression / New Deal

Depression/New Deal

Question: What were the signs that the economy in the late 1920's was not as healthy as it appeared (economic danger signs)?
Answer: GNP increase
Stock Market increase
living on credit & not being able to make payments
over production
under consumption


Question: SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission
Answer: monitored Stock Market for fraud - trying to prevent another crash

Question: Unemployment trends of the 1930's - to what degree did the New Deal actually fix the Great Depression?
Answer: The New Deal gave people restored hope.  Did not actually fix the problems, programs were created to help change happen.

Question: TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority
Answer: provided low cost electricity to the south by building dams

Question: What were the differences between Hoover's and FDR's responses to the Great Depression and their ideas on how to fix the economy? What impact did this have on the 1932 election?
Answer: Hoover wanted to give money to businesses, then they could hire people and fix the problem. He said people needed to help themselves.
FDR created new agencies to help people directly.
FDR won the election, because people felt hope with his programs.


Depression/New Deal

Question: SSA - Social Security Administration
Answer: gave money to the elderly, disabled, and the unemployed

Question: What factors caused the Great Depression?
Answer: Bank collapse
Businesses closing
unemployment
Hawley-Smoot Tariff


Question: AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Act
Answer: paid farmers not to grow crops

Question: What group was most affected by the Dust Bowl?
Answer: Farmers, they lost everything.

Question: How did the New Deal change people's perception of the role government plays in their lives?
Answer: People now expect the Federal Government to take an active role in their lives.

Depression/New Deal

Question: What was FDR's New Deal and what were its goals?
Answer: Agencies that were created to help the people, based on:
Relief (aid)
Recovery (get out of the depression)
Reform (not happen again)


Question: What were the major criticisms of the New Deal?
Answer: The National Debt grew, African Americans and women still had trouble finding work. Women still paid less than men.

Question: What happened on Black Tuesday?
Answer: Stock Market Crashed

Question: What was the First 100 DAys and what was its significance?
Answer: Dozens of programs were created in the first 100 days.
FDR pushed congress to get them through


Question: FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Answer: insures money that is deposited in banks

Depression/New Deal

Question: Which agencies that FDR created are still around today?
Answer: TVA, FDIC, SEC, SSA

Question: What was the Dust Bowl?
Answer: Environmental disaster, caused from over farming that stripped the soil. Strong wind storms, could of dust/dirt covered everything.

Question: Wagner Act
Answer: gave the unions more power

Question: Describe reasons behind the crash
Answer: Mass stock selling. People took all their money out of banks, out of fear that they would lose it. Banks could not pay and had to close.

Question: Give an example of the Wagner Act.
Answer: Flint Sit Down Auto Strike

Depression/New Deal

Question: What was the Bonus Army and how did Hoover respond to it?
Answer: WWI vets who were promised a bonus after the war. They went and protested in WAshington DC to get their money -- Hoover said no and riots broke out.

Question: What was the greatest accomplishment of the New DEal?
Answer: It restored the hope of the American people.

Question: CCC - Civilian Conservation Corp
Answer: single men worked cleaning parks, building roads, planting trees

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Question: What were Hoovervilles?  Why were they called this?
Answer: Shanty towns where homeless people lived in shacks they built.
They were called this because Hoover had promised to fix the problem and he did nothing.