The Great Depression and New Deal Review

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What event is known as Black Tuesday?

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The day the stock market crashed in 1929

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What was the primary cause of the Dust Bowl?

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Severe drought and poor farming practices

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What was the main goal of the New Deal?

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To provide immediate relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression

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What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?

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A law that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels

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What were Hoovervilles?

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Shantytowns built by homeless people during the Great Depression

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What was the Bank Holiday?

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A period when all banks were closed to prevent mass withdrawals.

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What is Social Security?

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A program to help the elderly, unemployed, and disabled

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Which of the following was an effect of the Dust Bowl? Increased tariffs on imported goods, Massive migration to California and other states, The creation of Social Security, The establishment of Hoovervilles

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Massive migration to California and other states

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How did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff impact the global economy during the Great Depression?

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It worsened the Great Depression by reducing international trade.

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What was one of the purposes of the New Deal's Bank Holiday?

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To prevent a total collapse of the banking system by stopping mass withdrawals