The Great Depression

What was the New Deal?

• Roosevelt's government program to help the nation recover from the Depression

• imposed by the constitutional amendment (18th Amendment) to make it illegal to manufacture, transport of sell alcoholic beverages

• the monetary policy followed by the Federal Reserve to help the nation recover from the Great Depression

• Hoover’s government program to help the nation recover from the Depression

What were three major features of the New Deal?

• Social Security

• Increased rights for labor

• environmental improvement programs

• money to close farms

What would most likely be the title of this list?

• Cultural Climate of the 1920s

• The Great MIgration

• Impact of the Great Depression

• Prohibition in America

What were the three causes of the Great Depression?

• Prohibition

• Over Speculation on Stock

• Debt due to buying things on credit

• high tariffs

What was the result of the Federal Reserves poor monitary policies?

• Bankers had too much money saved.

• The banking system collapsed.

• High tariffs were imposed on all international products.

• Americans had little debt due to buying on installment plans

What would best complete the timeline?

• Harlem Renaissance

• Prohibition

• New Deal

• WWI

Set up a system of pensions for the elderly

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Works Progress Administration

• Social Security

Brought great hardships to farmers on the Great Plains

• HUD

• Farm Credit Bureau

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Dust Bowl

Was blamed by many for the Great Depression

• Herbert Hoover

• Elenore Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Henry Ford

Was an early champion for civil rights and advocated for the poor and women during the Depression

• Herbert Hoover

• Elenore Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt