chapters 22 and 23 great depression test review. causes of the great depression and assorted terms

Chapters 22 and 23

GREAT DEPRESSION TEST REVIEW

CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

AND ASSORTED TERMS

Partial ownership of a company is called a share

of _______.


TERMS AND VOCABULARY

Making a risky investment decision with hopes of a

quick profit



Purchasing a consumer good with an initial down

payment and future scheduled payments



Tax on an imported good.



Purchasing stock with borrowed money.



Artificial manipulation of stock prices by big investors and overinflated stock prices

led to a drastic crash on 10/29/29

TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE?

Overproduction of consumer goods was exacerbated by the great gap between rich

and poor, leaving the poorest unable to fuel the

economy.TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE?

Tariffs were helpful in building American businesses in the 1930s and helped diminish the problems

of the Great Depression.FALSE – tariffs backfired in a

global economy where the US depends on selling goods

overseas and Europe is in debt to US banks due to WWI.

TRUE OR FALSE?

A contributing factor to the Great Depression was the high

expenditures of government for aid programs for poor workers.

FALSE – The government does not start with aid programs until FDR becomes president. This a major

transformation of the role of government in American lives.

TRUE OR FALSE?

Hard Sell Advertising was at first good for the economy, but over time people were

persuaded to purchase that which they could not afford.

TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE?

Farmers were able to regulate crop production without

government interference.FALSE – under their own

devices, farmers planted too much driving prices down.

TRUE OR FALSE?

Banks closed in the early Thirties due to a combination

of lost investments in the market and foreclosed

mortgages that were not paid off.

TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE?

Once the economy started to slow, people’s personal spending cuts had a ripple

effect on their local economies.

TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE?

The Federal Reserve pursued a policy after the 1929 crash that

helped banks with liquidity (cash on hand for customers.)FALSE – Federal Reserve made it harder for banks to get cash which was disastrous for the

banks.

TRUE OR FALSE?

NEW DEAL PROGAMS

Provided a minimal income for the elderly and

disabled

NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

Main purpose was to raise farm prices so farmers

would not go broke.

NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

Regulates the stock market to prevent insider

trading.

NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

Hired single, young men to replant trees and update

national forests and parks.

NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

Insured bank accounts up to $5000 at the time so that people would start saving in banks again.

NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

Provided direct relief in the form of cash for groceries.

NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

Largest peacetime expenditure at the time. A significant portion went to

insuring that America would not miss out on the

Arts.

NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

What does the W in both PWA and CWA stand for?

NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

Created a series of dams in the American Southeast that

diminished floods and provided electricity to an

area that utility companies had been avoiding due to

low profit margins.

NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

Name one of the New Deal programs shut down by

the Supreme Court

NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

GREAT DEPRESSION AND 1930S POP

CULTURE IN GENERAL

What would this be called in 1932?

GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE

These men are part of what group?


Hoover’s program to promote charity and to convince CEOs to slow down layoffs?


Hoover’s program to send $2 billion to banks, insurance, and railroads with the hopes that it would trickle down to the workers?


FDR’s name for his cabinet of brilliant advisors?


What was FDR’s method of delivering information to mass audiences that made them feel that he cares?


What was FDR’s first fireside chat all about?


Who documented the plight of the poor with

photographs?


Who wrote the classic story about the Joad family as they

left the Dust Bowl and headed to California for

better prospects?


Who was the radio priest that criticized FDR and broadcast

anti-Semitic messages?


Who was the first African American to head up

a New Deal proram?


Who was the Louisiana governor that criticized FDR

and happened to be assassinated?


Who was the fastest man in the world in 1936?


Who wrote “This land is Your Land, This Land is My Land”

while being paid by the WPA?


What was FDR’s first fireside chat all about?


HOOVER OR ROOSEVELT

HOOVER OR ROOSEVELT

Rugged Individualism

HOOVER OR ROOSEVELT

Paralyzed by Polio

HOOVER OR ROOSEVELT

Main aim was work programs and welfare to

get economy going.

HOOVER OR ROOSEVELT

Main aim was getting corporations back on their feet to get economy going.

HOOVER OR ROOSEVELT

Believed in deficit spending to get economy

going

HOOVER OR ROOSEVELT

“Government is to have a limited role in the

economy”

HOOVER OR ROOSEVELT

“the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”

HOOVER OR ROOSEVELT

Quietly supported the sit-down strikes.

HOOVER OR ROOSEVELT

Passed more legislative acts in 100 days than any other previous president.

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