U.S. History Final

What was the human impact of The Great Depression?

• People were homeless and hungry
• People generally owned their own home 
• People were optimistic about their current circumstances. 
• There was so much economic prosperity that Photographers took historical images of all the boisterousness. 

What was the impact on Business during The Great Depression?

• The demand for goods decreased
• The demand for goods increased
• The demand for goods stayed the same
• Banks were able to make more loans so business could invest more into their buisness

Shanty towns (make-shift) towns were named after this person due to the people’s dissatisfaction of the amount of help they were given after the Stock Market Crash?

• Hoovervilles
• Shanty Villa 
• Bum Town
• Roosevelt RoadHouses 

Migrants from the Great Plains headed west in search of better lives were called

• Okies

• Speculators

• Wagners

• Hoosier

President Roosevelt's bold reforms were called the

• Wagner Act

• Liberty Plan

• New Deal

• Townsend Plan

Roots of the Depression included overproduction, high tariffs, and

• uneven distribution of wealth

• inadequate money supply

• over-spending by government

• excessive reliance on export sales

Which of FDR's New Deal programs insured bank deposits?

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
• Social Security Act (SSA)
• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

To prevent any further Supreme Court rulings against the New Deal, Roosevelt

• proposed "packing the court" with more judges who would support his programs.
• gave a variety of speeches in front of the Court to convince them of the New Deal's importance.
• asked Congress to have the judges who opposed him impeached from the the Supreme Court.
• ordered a secret mission to have some judges assassinated.

The New Deal changed political thinking because it supported the idea that __________.

• the rights of workers are less important than businesses
• the Supreme Court should play a larger role
• the government should become more involved in the social/economic life of people
• foreign Policy is more important than domestic

What New Deal program was an answer to demands for a pension for the elderly as put forward by Dr. Francis Townsend?

• National Labor Relations
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Works Progress Administration
• Social Security