GREAT DEPRESSION QUIZ

Question 1

What were the causes of the Great Depression?

Answer 1

Stock market crashed, unbalanced economy, credit crisis, farm prices dropped 60%

Question 2

How was it a depression?

Answer 2

GNP 43% | Stocks 89% | Bank Failures 9,000 | Unemployment Rate 25% | Duration 12 years

Question 3

What did Hoover do to fight the Great Depression

Answer 3

Believed government should stay out | Encouraged private efforts | Began some public works

Question 4

What are some hooverisms?

Answer 4

Flag:Pockets | Hooverville:A place for poor people | leather:cardboard | Blanket:Newspaper

Question 5

What was the name of FDR program

Answer 5

FDIC

Question 6

What did FDR tackle first?

Answer 6

Fear

Question 7

What did he deal with 2nd? How did he fix it?

Answer 7

The banks | closed them down

Question 8

What were the three goals of the new deal?

Answer 8

RRR | Reform, Relief, Recovery

Question 9

Some new deal programs?

Answer 9

SSA, TVA, CCC, FERA, PWA, WPA, AAA, NRA

Question 10

What is a program still around today?

Answer 10

TVA

Question 11

Critics of the new deal?

Answer 11

The Rich, Huey Long, Charles Couglin, Frances Townsend, The Supreme Court

Question 12

What was FDRs 2nd Deal?

Answer 12

WPA AND SSA

Question 13

How were taxes paid for?

Answer 13

The Rich

Question 14

Why needed?

Answer 14

Unemployment was 20%

Question 15

What was FDR accused of? Why was it bad?

Answer 15

Gaining control | makes him look like a dictator

Question 16

What eventually happened?

Answer 16

Supreme Court Rejected it

Question 17

What was the dust bowl?

Answer 17

Area in west; very dusty.

Question 18

What states did it affect?

Answer 18

Colorado, Nevada, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas

Question 19

What was it like to be a hobo?

Answer 19

Not a lot of alcohol; gets arrested a lot; conditions are hard and cold.