Great Depression Revision

Question 1

Social Security System

Question 2

Hoovervilles

Question 3

Hundred-days

Question 4

Twenty-first Amendment

Question 5

New Deal

Question 6

Business Deal

Question 7

National Debt

Question 8

Dow Jowes Industrial Average

Question 9

Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 10

Hawley-Smoot Tarriff

Question 11

Dust Bowl

Question 12

21st Amendment

Question 13

Court Packing Fiasco

Question 14

Throughout most of the 1920’s, what did Americans believe about prosperity?

Question 15

What signs might have indicated the economy was unstable?

Question 16

How did the 1932 presidential election change the way Americans viewed the federal government?

Question 17

What did Hoover believe was the best way to end the Depression?

Question 18

What was the fundamental disagreement between the candidates in the 1932 presidential election?

Question 19

What did some people agree to do when a foreclosed farm was auctioned?

Question 20

What was one goal of the repeal of Prohibition?

Question 21

Why did FDR declare a “bank holiday” early in his administration?

Question 22

What criticism did many Progressives make of the New Deal?

Question 23

Why did FDR cut back on expensive relief programs in 1937?

Question 24

Although the New Deal met with some success, it overwhelming gave people a sense of ____

Question 25

Who won the election of 1936? By how much?

Question 26

To whom did New Deal job programs give strong preference?

Question 27

Under New Deal legislation, what happened to working conditions for domestic workers?

Question 28

Why did Roosevelt refuse to support strong anti-lynching legislation?

Question 29

Who mainly criticized the New Deal as being socialistic?

Question 30

1928 Election

Question 31

Speculation

Question 32

What were the warning signs of an unsound economy?