Mrs. Jordan
U.S. History
Chapter 22: The Great Depression Begins
Chapter 22 Section 1 The Nation’s Sick Economy Use pages 1316—1326 of your textbook to define/explain the significance or importance of the terms (within the context of the chapter), and answer the questions below.
1. Identify the “key basic industries” that saw losses in profit by the late 1920s.
2. Why is a decline in the number of new homes being built an indicator of economic troubles?
3. Explain why farmers fall into debt in the post-war years.
4. What did the McNary-Haugen bill call for?
5. Why did consumer demand begin to drop by the late 1920s?
6. How did the rising gap between the rich and poor during the 1920s affect the economy?
7. Why did Hoover win the presidency in a landslide victory in 1928?
8. What does the Dow Jones Industrial Average measure?
9. What is a “bull market”?
10. Define:
a. speculation
b. buying on margin
11. Regarding “Black Tuesday”:
a. Why did shareholders begin rapidly selling?
b. How much had investors lost by mid-November?
12. Why did banks begin failing following the crash?
13. Regarding the economy:
a. what happened to the GDP?
b. what happened to unemployment rates?
14. What was the purpose of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
a. What affect did it have on world trade?
15. What four factors do most historians and economists agree helped set the Great Depression
in motion?
a.
b.
c.
d.
22.1 Review Question answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Chapter 22 Section 3 Hoover Struggles with the Depression: Use pages 1340—1349 of your textbook to define/explain the significance or importance of the terms (within the context of the chapter), and answer the questions below.
1. What did President Hoover believe about the role of government?
2. Why did Hoover oppose any kind of federal welfare?
a. What did he believe was the “answer” for those in need?
b. What role did he believe the federal government should play?
c. What steps did he take in effort to help the nation recover, AND how effective were
they?
3. Why can the Boulder Dam be considered a major accomplishment for Hoover?
4. What evidence is there to suggest that Americans largely blamed Hoover for the Depression?
5. What did the Federal Home Loan Bank Act AND Reconstruction Finance Corporation do?
a. How did they reflect a shift in Hoover’s attitude towards the Depression?
6. What was the Bonus Army?
a. Why did it come to Washington in the spring of 1932?
b. How did Hoover get the “army” to disperse?
c. What effect did his reaction to the Bonus Army have for him politically?
22.3 Review Question answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Chapter 23: The New Deal
Chapter 23 Section 1 A New Deal Fights the Depression Use pages 1361—1372 of your textbook to define/explain the significance or importance of the terms (within the context of the chapter), and answer the questions below.
1. What experience did FDR bring to the presidency in 1932?
2. What was the “Brain Trust”?
3. What three goals did New Deal policies focus on?
a.
b.
c.
4. What did the government accomplish during the “Hundred Days” regarding:
a. Banking:
b. Regulating the stock market:
c. Raising government revenue:
d. Helping farmers:
e. Creating jobs:
f. Promoting/regulating industrial growth:
g. Home foreclosures
h. Helping the most needy:
5. What is deficit spending?
a. Why did FDR resort to it during the Depression?
6. Why were neither liberals nor conservatives happy with the New Deal?
7. Why did Roosevelt push for a “Court-packing bill” in 1937?
8. What was the American Liberty League?
9. Who were Charles Coughlin, Dr. Francis Townsend, and Huey Long?
23.1 Review Question answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Chapter 23 Section 2 The Second New Deal Takes Hold: Use pages 1374—1349 of your textbook to define/explain the significance or importance of the terms (within the context of the chapter), and answer the questions below.
1. What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play politically during FDR’s terms in office?
2. What did the results of the 1936 presidential and congressional elections reflect?
3. Describe how Roosevelt continued to work to help the following groups during the Second
New Deal.
a. Farmers
b. workers
c. young people
d. Labor
4. Identify and describe the three major parts of the Social Security Act.
a.
b.
c.