Chapter 14 and 15- Review Questions

Chapter 14 and 15- Review Questions

Chapter 14: The Great Depression Begins

1. What were 2 main causes of the Great Depression?

1. What policy did President Hoover feel would help America the most after the Stock Market crash?
2. Who made up the Bonus Army and what did they want?

1. Who were the two presidential candidates who ran for president in 1932?

1. What does it mean if you buy stock on margin?

1. What were two of the effects the Great Depression had on American families?

1. What were the names given to men and boys who rode the rails looking for work?
2. Buying stocks on the chance you would make a quick profit was called?
3. What was the purpose of the Federal Home Loan Ban Act?

1. What year did the stock market crash?

1. What did people look at to track the progress of the stock market?

1. What three things did people name after President Hoover in order to show their disgust?

1. Where was the Dust Bowl (main states) and what caused it?

1. What did many people do as a result of the major psychological effect the Depression had on them?

1. What was the Glass-Steagall Banking Act responsible for creating?

Chapter 15: The New Deal

1. Who was the first woman to serve as a member of a presidential cabinet?

1. What was FDR’s first major action upon taking office in 1933?

1. What were three goals of the New Deal?

1. What New Deal program aimed to lower the production of farm goods to increase the prices?

1. How many laws did FDR pass during his first month in office?

1. FDR’s fireside chats used what form of media?

1. What government agency insures one’s bank account?

1. What New Deal project created jobs, helped with flood control, and created hydroelectric power which brought electricity to many places in the south for the first time?

1. Who played an important role as an advisor on domestic policy and civil rights in the Roosevelt administration?

1. Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
2. The main goal of the Securities Exchange Commission was to regulate this?

1. Who claimed that the New Deal policies were inadequate and proposed a social program called Share-Our-Wealth?

1. What was the main goal of the Works Progress Administration?

1. What kind of work would you do if you were hired by the CCC?

1. Which 2 New Deal programs were ruled unconstitutional?

1. What group did Dr. Francis Townsend feel the government should help?

1. What New Deal program was so important to retired people 65 or older?

1. What group was organized to advise FDR on racial issues?

1. What minority group, that worked mainly as migrant farmers, was treated the worst during the 1930s?

1. What were two forms of entertainment people used to escape their troubles during the 1930s?

1. What was the most famous painting of a farmer & his wife during the 1930s titled?
2. What did conservatives say about what FDR’s New Deal Programs did to the size of the government?

1. What event helped the U.S. pull out of the Great Depression?