Great Depression & New Deal

This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest 

• Tornados
• Dust Bowl
• Black Tuesday 
• Hurricanes

The name given to the programs enforced by FDR to ensure relief, recovery and reform. 

• Stock Market 
• Great Depression
• Margin 
• New Deal 

On October 29, 1929 share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed and partially caused the Great Depression.

• Black Thursday
• Black Tuesday 
• Black Friday
• Black Sunday 

Which New Deal program was chiefly designed to correct abuses in the stock market?

• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• National Recovery Administration

One difference between the administrations of President Roosevelt and President Hoover was that Roosevelt was-

• more willing to use government intervention to solve economic problems
• unwilling to allow government agencies to establish jobs
• able to ignore economic issues for most of his first term in office
• opposed to any type of government regulation of financial institutions

Which was a guiding principle of New Deal economic policies?

• “Rugged individualism” will end social inequality
• Government must assume greater responsibility for helping the unfortunate
• Antitrust legislation could destroy the free enterprise system
• State governments should have more power over the economy than the national government

When President Roosevelt talked to the American people directly over the radio, they called it ____ ____.

• Fireside Chats
• the President talking
• Chats with me
• Campfire chats

Relief, Recovery, and Reform where the goals for the ___ ___ ___ of Roosevelt's presidency.  

• First Hundred Days
• First Year
• All Four Years
• None of the above 

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

Which cause of the Great Depression led to the decrease in the prices of goods and food?

• Stock Market Crash
• Overproduction
• Federal Reserve did not help failing banks
• High Tariffs