1930 S Great Depression PowerPoint Worksheet

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1 Name: Per: 1930 S Great Depression PowerPoint Worksheet 1. Do historians agree or disagree about the causes of the Great Depression? 2. List five causes of the Great Depression. a. b. c. d. e. 3. What was wrong with the prosperity of the 1920 s? 4. Which group was in a depression in the 1920 s? 5. How could people afford all the new items available in the 20 s? 6. a. Define rural: b. Define urban.: 7. How much did total realized income rise between 1923 and 1929? 8. Which income group controlled 34% of the nation s savings? 1930 S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 1

2 9. Explain what happened to the wages of unskilled labor in the 20 s. 10. Why didn t workers buy the products produced in American factories? 11. Define the word drought. 12. What does dust bowl mean? 13. Describe what caused the dust bowl. 14. List the states that were affected by the dust bowl. a. North Dakota b. South Dakota c. Montana d. Wyoming e. f. g. h. i. j. 15. What were Okies and where did many go? 16. What did Hoover believe would happen to poverty? 1930 S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 2

3 17. Which political party s campaign slogan was a chicken in every pot. And a car in every garage? *Herbert Hoover never actually spoke the words* 18. According to Hoover what was the most urgent economic problem. 19. What happened to farmer s income between 1929 and 1932? 20. What is a foreclosure sale? 21. What happened in October of 1929? 22. Give four reasons for the stock market crash. a. Overspeculation: people risked their money buying stocks they hoped would go higher b. c. A method where people borrowed money to buy stocks. If the stock prices went down, they would owe more than they borrowed. d. 23. Describe what happened to the number of banks between 1929 and S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 3

4 24. What were Hoovervilles? 25. Explain who the Bonus Marchers were. 26. How did President Hoover deal with the Bonus marchers? 27. Who were the candidates in the 1932 election? a. Democratic: b. Republican: 28. How many states in 1932 voted for Hoover? 29. What was FDR s slogan in March 1933? 30. Name FDR s campaign song. 31. Describe FDR s Brain Trust and list who was in it. 32. The Republican Economic Plan (used by Hoover and other earlier leaders) was based on the philosophy that money should be invested at the top-in business. Then business would expand, hire new workers and this would spur on spending and further economic growth. What are the two names for this economic theory? 33. Whose ideas did FDR favor, Pump Priming or Trickle down? 1930 S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 4

5 34. Explain how John Maynard Keynes wanted to end the Depression. (Keynesian or Pump priming economics) 35. Employee and Business owner: Who would favor Trickle down economics and who would favor Pump Priming? 36. What kind of power did FDR want in his first 100 days? 37. List ten things FDR did in his first 100 days as President. a. March 6 th for 4 days b. March 9 th Emergency Banking Relief Act introduced, passed, and signed on the same day c. First chat, FDR s informal method of communication with the American people using to explain his programs d. AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) e. NRA (National Recovery Administration) f. PWA (Public Works Administration) g. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) h. FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration) i. TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) 38. What were the three parts of FDR s New Deal? (New Deal Programs: AAA, NRA, PWA, FERA, CCC, TVA, CWA, HOLC, Market Reform) 39. Describe what a bank Holiday was. How did it help? 1930 S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 5

6 40. What did the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) pay farmers to do? 41. Give one positive result of AAA intervention. 42. How did the NRA (National Recovery Administration) which was organized by the NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act) help workers? 43. What happened to the NRA in 1935? 44. What is one example of a PWA (Public Works Administration) project in Oregon? 45. What were 3 things FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration) did? a. b. It gave matching grants to states to bolster local relief efforts c. It set up camps for 46. Who was in the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) and how much were they paid? 47. Explain why the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) was a great success S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 6

7 48. Describe the purpose of the CWA (Civil Works Administration). 49. Homes were foreclosing at about 1,000 a day. The HOLC bought up mortgages from banks and refinanced them at rates homeowners can afford to pay and keep their homes. What percentage of homes did the HOLC save? 50. Banking reform acts passed under FDR: a. - Banking Act (June 1933): Made it illegal for banks to speculate in the stock market with depositor s funds. It set up the FDIC b. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation):. This stabilized the banking system and people began putting their money in banks again. c. The Securities Act (1933) and the and Commission (SEC passed in 1934): implemented changes that curbed abuses in the stock market. ***FRD broke the bond between money and. The government was now free to print additional dollars and encourage so manufactures could get more dollars for their products. 51. Who said It seems the honeymoon is over to comment on the growing opposition to the New Deal? And what was his job? 1930 S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 7

8 52. Why did the American Liberty League oppose the New deal? 53. Laissez-faire means 54. Who were four left wing critics of FDR? a. b. c. d. 55. Every man a king was whose slogan? 56. Explain Huey Long s Share the wealth program. 57. Explain the Townsend Plan. 58. Father Coughlin was both anti capitalist and an anti-semite. What did this mean? 59. What was Upton Sinclair s movement called? 60. Do you know the name of the famous book he wrote years before about the meat packing industry? 61. What was proof that the American people backed the New Deal programs? 1930 S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 8

9 62. On the table below list nine second New Deal programs and their purpose. New Deal Programs What was the purpose of the program? 1. Federal Housing Authority ( ) Works Progress Administration ( ) 1935 *Also answer #63 & 64* 3. National Youth Administration Part of the WPA 4. *Also answer #65 & Farm Programs: Resettlement Administration, Farm Security Administration Rural Electrification Administration #67 To combat American rural poverty and improve lifestyle of sharecroppers, tenants, and poor landowning farmers. 7. Wagner Act: Labor Union # What percentage of WPA jobs was given to women and how was the pay compared to men? 64. List some examples of WPA jobs? 65. What were four parts of the Social Security Act? Which was considered the most important? a. b. c S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 9

10 d. 66. Explain why Francis Perkins was important. 67. In 1935 of farms did not have electricity. By 1941, thanks to the REA had electrical power. 68. Was FDR for or against unions? 69. Describe the growth in union membership under FDR. 70. Who was the Wagner Act named for? Why? 71. How was the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) different from the AFL (American Federation of Labor)? 72. Who were the servicemen hired by Ford and what was their job? 73. Why was FDR angry at the Supreme Court? 74. What was FDR s court reorganization plan called and what did conservatives accuse him of being? 1930 S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 10

11 75. What happened to the Judiciary Reform Bill? 76. What happened in 1937 when FDR had Congress cut money from government programs? 77. How many Black workers were without jobs in 1932? 78. Who was a supporter Black Rights? 79. A large number of black voters switched from the to the Party (the Party of Lincoln and Emancipation) during the depression. 80. What did FDR s Black Cabinet work towards? 81. Explain what repatriations meant and who it was applied to. 82. About how many Mexican citizens returned to their homeland during the Depression? 83. Who was affected by the Wheeler-Howard Act, 1934 and what did it do? 84. What were married women encouraged to do during the Depression? 1930 S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 11

12 85. The last major piece of the New Deal was the Fair Labor Standards Act in June What 3 things did it do? 86. What world event finally got us out of the Depression? 87. How did the New Deal change America? a. increase the power of the gov t and the role it plays in the life of people b. growth of power c. The use of as a technique for maintaining the economic health of the nation d. Creation of a state and the acceptance that the federal government should take responsibility for the welfare of the people e. The right of people to organize unions to advance their economic interests f. renewed interest in preserving and protecting the g. major construction and institutions are still with us today h. showed democracy is capable of responding to major disruptions and has the tools to reform itself 1930 S Great Depression Power Point Notes Page 12