Final Exam - - Great depression

Question 1

What act was called for industries to cooperate rather than compete and encourage them to develop a “code of fair practices” within their industry?

Answer 1

NIRA - - National Industry Recovery Act

Question 2

What organization was hit with a panic of selling stock at the beginning of the Great Depression?

Answer 2

New York Stock Exchange

Question 3

What was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economic plan for combating the Great Depression?

Answer 3

The New Deal

Question 4

What is the name of the Corporation that insured bank deposits up to $2,500 in 1933?

Answer 4

FDIC - - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Question 5

What is the name of the organization that employed young people to do conservation work and had them send a portion of their wage home to their parents?

Answer 5

CCC - - Civilian conservation Corporation

Question 6

What brought an end to the New Deal?

Answer 6

World War II

Question 7

What President ran and won the presidential election 4 times?

Answer 7

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 8

What organization provided unemployment insurance - - which were an old age pension and benefits to the handicapped?

Answer 8

Social Security Act

Question 9

What was the name of the greatest American experiment - - where a number of dams were built on the Cumberland and Tennessee River - - and was designed to improve the quality of life in the region?

Answer 9

TVA - - Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 10

Who was the President at the start of the Great Depression?

Answer 10

Herbert Hoover