chapters 22 and 23 great depression test review. causes of the great depression and assorted terms
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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 _______.
CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
TERMS AND VOCABULARY
Making a risky investment decision with hopes of a
quick profit
CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
TERMS AND VOCABULARY
Purchasing a consumer good with an initial down
payment and future scheduled payments
CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
TERMS AND VOCABULARY
Tax on an imported good.
CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
TERMS AND VOCABULARY
Purchasing stock with borrowed money.
CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
TERMS AND VOCABULARY
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?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
Hoover’s program to promote charity and to convince CEOs to slow down layoffs?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
Hoover’s program to send $2 billion to banks, insurance, and railroads with the hopes that it would trickle down to the workers?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
FDR’s name for his cabinet of brilliant advisors?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
What was FDR’s method of delivering information to mass audiences that made them feel that he cares?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
What was FDR’s first fireside chat all about?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
Who documented the plight of the poor with
photographs?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
Who wrote the classic story about the Joad family as they
left the Dust Bowl and headed to California for
better prospects?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
Who was the radio priest that criticized FDR and broadcast
anti-Semitic messages?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
Who was the first African American to head up
a New Deal proram?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
Who was the Louisiana governor that criticized FDR
and happened to be assassinated?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
Who was the fastest man in the world in 1936?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
Who wrote “This land is Your Land, This Land is My Land”
while being paid by the WPA?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
What was FDR’s first fireside chat all about?
GENERAL GREAT DEPRESSION AND POP CULTURE
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.