Mr. Loomisu.S. Historythe Great Depression Study Guide

Mr. LoomisU.S. HistoryThe Great Depression Study Guide

Ch.22-23

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Ch.22 Sect.1

Identification

1. Credit –

1. Distribution of Income –

1. Stocks –

1. Dow Jones Industrial Average –

1. Stock speculation –

1. Bull market –

1. Bear Market –

1. Buying on margin –

1. Black Tuesday –

1. Great Depression –

1. Gross National Product –

1. Hawley-Smoot Tariff –

Review Questions

1. According to your textbook (pg. 672), what was the one major advantage that Herbert Hooverheld over his opponent in the election of 1928?

1. How did unequal distribution of income contribute to the Great Depression?

1. How did the stock market crash provoke a banking crisis, and how did the banking crisis lead

to business failures?

1. What events signaled the beginning of the Great Depression?

1. How did the Hawley-Smoot tariff contribute to the worldwide economic downturn?

Ch.22 Sect.2

Identification

1. Shantytowns –

1. Breadlines –

1. Mortgage –

1. Dust Bowl –

1. Okies –

1. Hoboes –

1. Direct Relief –

Review Questions

1. How were African-Americans and Latinos typically affected by the Great Depression?

1. Why were shantytowns often referred to as “Hoovervilles?”

1. How did families pass the time during the Great Depression?

1. How were children affected by the Great Depression?

1. In what ways did economic hardships strain family relations?

1. What kinds of sacrifices di families have to make to get through these economically tough times?

Ch.22 Sect.3

Identification

1. Rugged Individualism –

1. Boulder Dam –

1. Hoovervilles –

1. Reconstruction Finance Corporation –

1. Bonus Army –

1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt –

Review Questions

1. What efforts did President Hoover initially make to combat the onset of the Great Depression?

1. Why did some farmers slaughter their livestock and let their crops rot?

1. How did Hoover’s belief in “rugged individualism” shape his policies during the GreatDepression?

1. List four things that Hoover attempted to revive the economy:

• Put a star next to his most successful effort and circle what you feel was the biggest failure. Explain why you chose the ones that you did.

Ch.23 Sect.1

Identification

1. New Deal –

1. Hundred days –

1. Emergency Banking Relief Act –

1. “Fireside chats” –

1. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) –

1. Securities and Exchange Commission –

1. Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) –

1. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) –

1. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) –

1. National Recovery Administration (NRA) –

1. Civil Works Administration –

1. Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) –

1. Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) –

1. Deficit spending –

1. “Court packing bill” –

1. Charles Coughlin –

1. Anti-Semitic –

1. Dr. Francis Townsend –

1. Huey Long –

Review Questions

1. How did FDR restore public confidence in the banking system?

1. How did FDR attempt to aid struggling farmers?

1. In what ways did the FERA, the CWA, and the CCC provide different types of relief?

Ch.23 Sect.2

Identification

1. Second Hundred Days –

1. 2nd Agricultural Adjustment Act –

1. Dorothea Lange –

1. Works Progress Administration (WPA) –

1. National Youth Administration (NYA) –

1. Wagner Act –

1. National Labor Relations Board –

1. Social Security Act –

Review Questions

1. How did Eleanor Roosevelt assist her husband accomplish his New Deal goals?

2. Why do you think the photograph “Migrant Mother” was effective in persuading people to support FDR’s relief programs?

3. Why was the Wagner-Connery Act considered a victory for labor unions?

4. What benefits did the Social Security system provide?

1. How did the Second New Deal differ from the first New Deal?

Ch.23 Sect. 3, 4, & 5

Identification

1. Frances Perkins –

1. Marian Anderson –

1. American Federation of Labor (AFL) –

1. Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) –

1. The Wizard of OZ –

1. The Lone Ranger –

1. The Hindenburg –

1. The Federal Art Project –

1. The Federal Writers Project –

10. John Steinbeck –

Review Questions

1. How did the New Deal create opportunities for women?

1. In what ways did the New Deal discriminated against African-Americans, Mexican-Americans,and Native Americans?

1. How were the issues of the New Deal Era reflected in novels, films, and plays of the 1930’s?

1. List five New Deal programs that still exist today.