Name ______Hour _____Score______
Chapter 21: The Great Depression
Section 1: Pages 675-679
1. Describe the uneven distribution of wealth in America before the stock market crash.
2. What is buying on margin?
3. How does the Federal Reserve Board promote healthy economic activity?
4. Briefly describe the events of the Stock Market crash from October 24 through October 29, 1929. (pg. 676-77)
5. Bank loan failures eventually ______.
6. Describe the effects on business in the United States as a result of the Great Crash.
7. High ______were passed to protect nations industries, but led to an imbalance in foreign trade. (pg. 679)
Section 2: Pages 681-685
8. Describe a “bank run.”
9. Using the Quick Facts chart on page 681, compare unemployment rates in 1928 and 1933.
10. Describe Hoovervilles.
11. Who did many Americans blame for the Great Depression?
12. Farmers of the Great Plains headed west along ______to ______as a result of
the Dust Bowl.
Section 3: Pages 688-691
13. President Hoover and Congress took direct action in early 1932 by creating the ______
______(pg. 689-90)
14. The measures of the RFC marked an historic expansion of the ______
in the lives and business of the ______.
15. From your notes, please identify the four causes to the Great Depression.
a.b.
c.d.
Chapter 22: The New Deal
Section 1: Pages 699-705
16. Describe the landslide victory for the Democrats in the election of 1932.
17. As he demonstrated as the former governor of New York, Roosevelt believed ______
______.
18. Describe three valuable contributions of Eleanor Roosevelt as the First Lady of the United States.
a.b.c.
19. How did President Roosevelt stop the cycle of bank failures? (pg. 701)
Step 1Step 2Step 3
20. President Roosevelt’s program that fought the challenges of the Great Depression was called the ______.
The New Deal included measures aimed at accomplishing three goals: Relief for ______
______; recovery of the ______; reforms
______.
21. Describe the views of the following critics of the New Deal.
Huey LongFather Charles CoughlinDr. Francis Townsend
22. Give two examples of the Supreme Court’s sharp blows to Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. (pg. 705)
Sections 2-4: Pages 710-725
23. A centerpiece to the Second New Deal was the ______Act, signed in August 1935.
This law provided a ______.
Analyze the Major New Deal Programs on page 712 and briefly describe the following programs still in existence.
24. Social Security Act:
25. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (______):
26. Securities and Exchange Commission (______):
27. Fair Labor Standards Act:
28. Federal Housing Administration (______):
29. President Roosevelt’s ______plan surprised Congress and was ultimately rejected. (pg. 715)
30. Who was Francis Perkins? (pg. 718)
31. The New Deal changed the link between the ______and ______.
Roosevelt believed that government could ______. (pg. 724)