The Great Depression Review Questions

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The Great Depression Review Questions

• 1. The Great Depression existed from the year
  1929 to what year?
• 2. During the 1920s, most Americans believed
  the economy
• 3. When the Dow Jones Index began to decline in
  1929, many investors began

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• 4. Because of drought, an environmental crisis
  developed in the Midwest during the 30s known as
• 5. Many people who left a life of dust in
  Oklahoma and headed west to California were called

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• 6. The first Three fundamental causes of the
  Great Depression we studied were
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.

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7. Two other causes included
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• 8. The depression was the worst economic
  depression in

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• 9. The crash led to high unemployment for
  millions of Americans reaching an overall
  unemployment rate of

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• 10. In urban areas, unemployment reached
  approximately
• Among African Americans, unemployment reached
  almost

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• 11. The crash also led to widespread

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• 12. International trade slowed and almost came
  to a standstill as a result of the passage of

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• 13. When WW I veterans marched on Washington,
  DC demanding a bonus in pay they had been
  promised, they were called

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• 14. General MacArthur removed the Bonus Army
  marchers by using

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• 15. Shantytowns and tent cities built by the
  homeless were called Hoovervilles because

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• 16. Who was elected President in 1932 and served
  as President until 1945?

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• 17. What was the campaign slogan of FDR in the
  election of 1932?

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• 18. Roosevelt promised the American people the
  three Rs Relief, Recovery
• and

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• 19. Roosevelt also stated that we have nothing
  to fear,

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• 20. What New Deal program was established to
  provide income and assistance to the elderly?

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• 21. What event sealed the fate of President
  Herbert Hoover, ensuring he would not be
  reelected?

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• 22. What program provided young men with work on
  environmental conservation projects?

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• 23. What program gave the unemployed jobs
  building schools, libraries, roads as well as
  jobs to artists and musicians?

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• 24. Which program worked with industries and
  businesses to ensure good business and labor
  practices?
• 25. Which program provided jobs and electric
  power through the Tennessee valley area?

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• 26. Which program under the NIRA protected the
  rights of workers?

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• 27. How did President Roosevelt keep in touch
  with the American people during the depression
  era and also during World War II?

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• 28. What was one of the most serious attacks
  against the policies of Roosevelt?
• 29. What two major New Deal programs are still
  with us today?

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• 30. Who emerged as the NAZI leader of Germany
  during the 1930s and stressed nationalism,
  racial superiority, and expansion through
  military conquest?

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• 31. Who emerged as the leader of Italy during
  the late 1920s and 1930s and believed in the
  loss of individual freedoms, that citizens have
  only duties, and gang warfare?

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• 32 . Who was the leader of the Soviet Union from
  1924 to 1953 and believed in collectivization,
  and political purges?

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• 33. What is the type of government that
  controls almost every aspect of a persons live
  that emerged in Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union
  and Japan during the 1930s?

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• 34. What is the specific type of government
  that adopts nationalism, militarism, and gives
  supreme authority to a leader?

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• 35. Who was the emperor of Japan during the
  1930s that stressed the development of Asia for
  Asians?

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• 36. Which recovery program was designed to bring
  the nation and farmers out of the depression
  over time?

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• 37. Which New Deal reform measure corrected
  unsound banking and investment practices and
  insured depositors money?
• 38. How did the New Deal change the role of
  government in America?
• 39. When was Black Tuesday?

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• 40. During the Depression, peoples mental and
  physical health declined due to

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• 41. How many businesses closed during the
  Depression?

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• 42. How many banks closed?

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• 43. What was the lowest average level of the
  Dow Jones Index?

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• 44. What were the unemployment percentages
  during the depression?
• Overall-
• Urban-
• African American-

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• 45. The Three Rs of FDR and the New Deal were ?

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• 46. When Roosevelt at first temporarily closed
  the nations banks, this event has been called a

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• 47. What national bill was passed in 2010,
  which will eventually continue an interwoven
  relationship between the government and
• medical care in America?