Great Depression, Dust Bowl, & New Deal

Choose the answer that best describes the Dust Bowl.

• When people get a lot of dust in their plates and bowls.

• A period of time where a large part of the US experienced drought and huge dust storms.

• When a dust storm came through Lubbock last year.

• A general term for when objects become dirty.

What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

• Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
• Unemployment decreased gradually.
• Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
• Hoover was re-elected as president.

What event took place in October 1929 that many people consider an important factor in causing the Great Depression?

• Stock Car Crash

• Stock Market Crash

• World War I

• World War II

After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.

• banks closed
• banks gave away their money
• they couldn't remember where they put it
• someone stole it

How many workers didn't have a job by 1933?

• 1 out of every 7

• 1 out of every 4

• 2 out of every 7

• 3 out of every 4

Which government agency gives benefits to people when they are retired or unemployed?

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Social Security Admistration

Which was a guiding principle of New Deal economic policies?

• “Rugged individualism” will end social inequality

• Antitrust legislation could destroy the free enterprise system

• Government must assume greater responsibility for helping the unfortunate

• State governments should have more power over the economy than the national government

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 New Deal program employed young men to work on various projects to improve the country?

• Social Security Act

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Fair labor Standards Act

• Rural Electrification Act

The Soil Conservation Service addressed problems of Dust Bowl by

• teaching farmers how to prevent soil erosion.

• growing as many crops as possible.

• encouraging more people to become farmers.

• making more land available for farming