The Great Depression/New Deal

UNIT 5 TEST REVIEW

THE GREAT DEPRESSION/NEW DEAL

1. The Dust Bowl during the Great Depression and the Gold Rush in 1849 both caused people to migrate to what part of the country?

2. In the years leading up to the Great Depression, what were the contributing factors that helped cause the Depression other than the Stock Market Crash and Dust Bowl?

3. The Federal Reserve allowed banks to fail in the late 1920s and early 1930s. How did this contribute to the Great Depression?

4. Did the stock market crash help lead to the Great Depression?

5. How did high tariffs on imported goods, like the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, help contribute to the Great Depression? When traditional U.S. trade partners were angered by the tariff, what did they do?

6. Why did the U.S. force the repatriation of immigrants from the U.S. during the Great Depression?

7. Did the Great Depression threaten the people’s faith in democracy?

8. What do the Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission regulate?

9. What are the major results of FDR’s New Deal Policies?

10. What is a “Hooverville”?

11. By using terms like “Hoovervilles” and “Hoover blankets”, who did people blame for the suffering of the poor?

12. What was the biggest farming problem that New Deal policies try to solve?

13. Who did President Hoover think was responsible for helping people in the Depression.

14. Why did FDR want to add justices to the Supreme Court?

15. Why did Congress oppose this plan?

16. What is an example of New Deal policies that was aimed at improving regional needs?

17. How did many New Deal programs expand the role of the federal government?

18. What were the differences in Hoover’s and Roosevelt’s policies in the government’s role in the Great Depression.

19. What did most Americans believe the government needed to do to help solve the problems of the Great Depression?

20. One of the greatest effects the New Deal.

21. President Hoover endorsed a campaign to force the deportation of which immigrants?