Great Depression

Question 1

List 3 programs created by FDR as part as the New Deal to help America get out of the Great Depression

Answer 1

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Social Security Act (SSA)
Works Program Administration (WPA)

Question 2

Explain how the New Deal changed the way the government interacted with the economy?

Answer 2

Government became more involved in regulating the economy with private business

Question 3

What were FDR’s fireside chats?
Why were they significant?

Answer 3

Informal talks with the American people to keep them informed about the progress of the New Deal programs

Question 4

Which President was blamed for the cardboard villages during the Great Depression?

Answer 4

President Herbert Hoover

Question 5

Why was President Hoover blamed for the cardboard villages during the Great Depression ?

Answer 5

President Herbert Hoover wanted companies not to cut jobs and increase the production of products, but people not could afford to buy the products, and then unemployment increased.

Question 6

What did the 18th Amendment outlaw?

Answer 6

The making, shipping, and sale of alcoholic beverages

Question 7

Name two causes of US joining WW1?
Describe each event?

Answer 7

1) Sinking of the Lusitania where American lives were lost
2) Zimmerman Note sent to Mexico if they helped Germany they would get their land back from the US

Question 8

Who gained right vote with the 19th Amendment?

Answer 8

Women

Question 9

What was the Dust Bowl?

Answer 9

Massive drought hit the central part of the country and the strong winds would tear away the topsoil so nothing could grow

Question 10

How did new machines aid in causing the Dust Bowl?

Answer 10

New Farming technology allowed farmers to expand their farming and ended up over-farming their lands.

Question 11

What do these items have in common?
15 million unemployed
cardboard house villages
food lines for unemployed

Answer 11

Great Depression and
Hooverville towns

Question 12

What was the major cause of the Great Depression?

Answer 12

The stock market crash of 1929

Question 13

Define the Great Depression?

Answer 13

A long and severe decline in the economy where people cannot find jobs and are losing everything they worked for

Question 14

What event started WW1 ?

Answer 14

the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife of Austria Hungary

Question 15

Which ALLIANCE was Germany a part of during WW1 ?

Answer 15

Central Powers

Question 16

Which ALLIANCE was the US a part of during WW1 ?

Answer 16

Allied Powers

Question 17

Explain America’s policy of Isolation during WW1?

Answer 17

Americans felt like the war was in Europe and did not affect them, they wanted to remain neutral and not get involved

Question 18

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 18

Time period inthe 1930s of NYC marked by a burst of creativity within the African American community in the areas of art, music and literature. Rebirth of art and learning.

Question 19

Why did people end up in Hooverville?

Answer 19

Millions of families lost their jobs and depleted their savings, they also lost their homes, so they lived in Carboard boxes.

Question 20

Were people more likely to SPEND or SAVE their money after the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

Answer 20

Spend, because they have to spend for housing and food