The Great Depression

Which of the following were causes of the Great Depression?

• Weak banks & buying on credit

• speculation & Stock Market Crash

• Overproduction of crops & consumer goods

• all of the above

One characteristic of the Great Depression was?

• high unemployment

• homelessness & poverty

• both a and b

• none of the answers is correct

People who lost their life's savings and were unemployed often lived in these shantytowns?

• Dust Bowls

• Herbertvilles

• Hoovertowns

• Hoovervilles

Which event occurred because of intensive farming, drought, and wind storms on the Great Plains in 1930's?

• the Farm Failure

• the Dust Bowl

• the Okie Event

• the Great Plains Disaster

What was President Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression?

• he did not take any direct action to help the people

• he created the New Deal to create programs to help the people

• he passed laws that gave cash directly to the people

• he was willing to help only the wealthy & big business

What was the name for the WWI Veterans who marched on Washington, D.C. demanding early payment of their $1,000 bonus checks?

• The Bonus Protestors

• Hoover's Army

• the WWI Marchers

• the Bonus Army

What did President Hoover do when the Bonus Army refused to leave the capitol?

• he sent in army to break up the camps & remove the veterans

• he gave in & paid them their bonus checks

• he sent in the police and arrested all of the veterans

• he ignored them & let them protest

This agency was established by Hoover in 1932 to provide emergency relief money/loans to large businesses, insurance companies, and banks.

• Wagner Act

• Bonus Army

• Reconstruction Finance Corporation

• Fireside Chats

What was the name of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's program to rescue the nation from the Great Depression?

• the Fair Deal

• the New Deal

• the Square Deal

• Rugged Individualism

FDR's New Deal programs focused on helping the nation in what areas:

• Relief, Recovery, Reform

• Relief, Recovery, Refund

• Recovery & Reform

• Return & Relief