The Great Depression and the New Deal

Question 0

Election of 1932

Answer 0

FDR instilled hope, won election against Hoover

Question 1

Black Tuesday

Answer 1

October 1929, market crash

Question 2

• Agricultural Marketing Act (1929): essentially provided farmers to buy what was needed
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930): raised duties for agricultural and manufactured imports
• The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)
• The Federal Home Loan Bank Act. (1932)

Were all a part of what president’s depression policies?

Answer 2

Hoover’s Depression Policies

Question 3

Hundred Days

Answer 3

First hundred days of FDRs term where he passed new legislations

Question 4

Senator Huey Long

Answer 4

Founded Share Our Wealth Society (1934)

Question 5

Economy began to recover in..

Answer 5

1938

Question 6

• Works Progress Administration (1935): Employed ppl
• National Youth Administration (1935): Provided work opportunities for hs and college students
• Rural Electrification Administration (1935)
• Banking Act of 1935

Were all a part of what?

Answer 6

Second New Deal

Question 8

What act gave employees the right to organize unions and could not be required, as a condition of employment, to join or to refrain from joining a labour organization. Prior to this act, the courts had upheld the right of employers to go to great lengths to prevent the formation of unions.

A. Wagner Act (1935)
B. National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)

Answer 8

National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)

Question 9

What act guaranteed employees “the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection” ?

A. Wagner Act (1935)
B. National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)

Answer 9

Wagner Act (1935)

Question 10

What years were FDR president?

Answer 10

1933-1945 (12 years)

Question 11

What was a major reason the collapse of the American economy after 1929?

a. high interest rates
b. decreased farm production
c. low tarrifs at home and abroad
d. overproduction of consumer goods

Answer 11

Overproduction of consumer goods

Question 12

The Hawley-Smooth Tarrif passed in 1930 was…

Answer 12

the highest tarrif ever

Question 13

To fight the Depression, Roosevelt believed the first thing to do was to:

A. Provide direct relief for people
B. Set up public works programs
C. Restore confidence in the banks
D. Provide relief for the farmers

Answer 13

C. Restore confidence in the banks