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Chapter 21 The Great Depression
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11th Grade
01/28/2013

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What marked the beginning of the GD?
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Stock market crash
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What did Hoover do to end the GD?
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Fucking Nothing
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How did Roosevelt inspire confidence in Americans?
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Propsal of the New Deal
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WHat did Eleanor Roosevelt do?
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Encouraged President roosevelt to develop a second new deal
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What did the New deal partially effect?
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Labor and employment. conserve and protect natural resources
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Ecoonomic troubles surfaced in businesses and farms in...
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1926
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What were hoovervilles?
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cardboard shacks named after president
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What did President Hoover's advisors believe?
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The economy would recover on its own
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What did Roosevelt do in his first 100days as president?
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Made proposals to provide relief, recovery, and reform to americans
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What did Roosevelt do to build confidence in americans?
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Had fireside chats on the radio
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WHich of the following is not true of the economic polices leading to the Great Depression?
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Government strictly regulated business production
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Which of the following was not made by president hoober to end the depression?
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Govt providing direct releif
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Which of the following was not one of the 2 goals of the new deal?
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Rebuild the nation
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Which program was created to secure individuals' bank deposits?
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FDIC
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Which of the following was true of the opposition to the New Deal?
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Critics on the left said it did not reform the economy
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Which was not a cause for developing a second deal?
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There was no improvement in the economy
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Which was not the case with minorities during the depression?
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AA remained republicans when FDR did not support anti-lynching
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Who was the first woman to join the cabinet as the secretary of labor?
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Frances perkins
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Localism
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A range of political philosphies which prioritize the local
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RFC
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Gave $2 billion in aid to state and local govts. and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgages, and other businesses
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Hoover Dam
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Constructed in Colorado during the Great depression to create jobs
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Bonus Army
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The assembly of nearly 43,000 veterans, their families and others, who gathered in DC to demand cash for thheir services.
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Trickle Down Economics
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An effect caused gradually by remote or indirect influences
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A time of economic downturn and high unemployment between 1929 and 1941
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Great Depression
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The periodic expansion and contraction of the economy
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Business cycle
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US President from 1929 to 1933
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Hoover
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A risky stock purchase intended to turn quick profits
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speculation
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A tax passed in 1930 on foreign products brought into the US
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Hawley-Smoot tariff
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The time at which the stock market collapsed in the Great Crash
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Black Tuesday
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Which of these factors helped hide economic problems in the 1920s?
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Americans purchased many consumer goods on credit
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Why did so many banks fail at the onset of the Great Depression?
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Bank Runs!
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European countries reacted to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff by
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taxing American imports
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What economic condition did economist John Maynard Keynes believe caused the Great Depression?
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Lack of governemt intervention
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Dust Bowl refugees called __________ headed west to look for work
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Okies
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During the GD, many homeless people grouped together to build __________, or makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks
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Hoovervilles
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__________ lived on and worked land owned by someone else
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Tenant farmers
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Local, state, and federal governments tried to coerce Mexican immigrants to reutrn to Mexico through __________
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repatritation
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The __________ casused hundreds of thousands of people to migrate from the Great Plains
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Dust Bowl
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At the onset of the GD, urban unemployment
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increased dramatically
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Farmers contributed to the problems that led to the dustbowl by
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using intensive farming practices that removed protective grasses
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The unemployment rate among AA was
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nearly double the national rate
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