Unit 5 The Great Depression

What is the name of an extended economic downturn?

• Depression
• Collapse
• Failure
• Stock Collapse

What year did the Great Depression start?

• 1932
• 1936
• 1929
• 1926

What is a tax on imports?

• Penchant
• Corollary
• Back Tax
• Tariff

Poor land usage and drought in the West led to what environmental disaster?

• Great Oil Spill
• Dust Bowl
• Great Well Dry Up
• The Great Burning

What is it called when a lot of people take their money out of the bank and it runs out?

• Bank Failure
• Bank Run
• Bank Blitz
• Bank Closure

What was FDR’s plan to make the government more responsible for peoples economic welfare called?

• Square Deal
• Fair Deal
• Great Society
• New Deal

What organization insures bank deposits?

• SEC
• FHA
• TVA
• FDIC

Entitlement program that gives the elderly and the disabled money.

• FDIC
• SEC
• TVA
• Social Security

What was FDR’s plan to add justices to the Supreme Court called?

• The Yes Man Trials
• Court Packing Scheme
• Operation Puppet
• Court Repatriation

What was the main criticism of the Court-Packing Scheme?

• Congress allowed it
• Too much of an expansion of executive power
• The Court would be too small
• Only state governments could pack the court