Chapter 30: the Causes of the Great Depression
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Unit 6 Vocabulary Chapter 30: The Causes of the Great Depression
Black Tuesday
Stock Market Crash
Bull Market
Buying on Margin
The Financial Crisis
Bear market
Interest
Rising Interest Rates
Bank Runs
Overproduction
Underconsumption
An Unequal Distribution of Wealth
Tight Money Supply
Federal Reserve System
Discount Rate
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Decline of International Trade
Speculative bubble Name ______Date ______Period ___
Unit 6 Vocabulary Chapter 31: The Response to the Economic Collapse
Bonus Army
Ideology
The Conservative Response
The Liberal Response
The Radical Response
Business Cycle
Public Works
Social Welfare
Radical
Hoovervilles
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Trickle-down theory
Herbert Hoover
The New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt
First Hundred Days Name ______Date ______Period ___
Unit 6 Vocabulary Chapter 32: The Human impact of the Great Depression
Living Wage
Property Values
Eviction
Malnutrition
Soup Kitchens
Breadlines
The Dust Bowl
Black Blizzards
Desertification
Depopulation
The Grapes of Wrath
Okies
Great Flood of 1936
Public Assistance
Homelessness
Hunger
Charity Name ______Date ______Period ___
Unit 6 Vocabulary Chapter 33: The New Deal and Its Legacy
National Industrial Recovery Act
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
Right Wing
Left Wing
Demagogues
The Second New Deal
Works Progress Administration
The Wagner Act
Social Security Act
Congress of Industrial Organization
The New Deal Coalition
Deficit Spending
How did the New Deal affect the following groups of people? Workers
Women
African Americans
American Indians
Mexicans Americans Name ______Date ______Period______
Chapter 30 Questions: The Causes of the Great Depression
1. What happened on October 29, 1929?
2. How did a shaky market trigger a banking crisis?
3. Explain how the 1920’s demonstrated a bull market?
4. Give me an example of buying on margin.
5. What did investors try and do when the market took a turn for the worse in 1929?
6. Even during the good times in the 1920’s how many banks closed per day?
7. What happened to banks between 1930-31?
8. Why was overproduction a problem in the 1920’s?
9. How did underconsumption cause farm failures, bankruptcies, and layoffs?
10. What happened to the unemployment rate between 1929-1933?
11. Why did economists blame the Fed for the bad economy?
12. How would more money in the economy have helped during the beginning of the depression?
13. How was Europe’s economy after WWI?
14. Why did the Hawley Smoot Tariff Act make the economy worse?
15. Reading the political cartoon on page 389, list the causes of the great depression.
16. What is a speculative bubble?
17. What was the bubble in the 1600’s?
18. What about the bubble in the 1990’s?
19. What is the most recent bubble in the US between 2000-2005?
20. Do you think another bursting of a bubble could lead to another depression? Name ______Date ______Period______
Chapter 31: The Response to the Economic Collapse
1. What did the Bonus Army do in 1932???
2. What is FDR’s Quote say to do about the tree?
3. Conservatives felts that if the economy was left alone it would….
4. What followed the panics of 1870’s and 1890’s?
5. Liberals realized that limited government could offer individuals little protection from….. (list 3 things)
6. Give 5 examples of the public works government funded projects.
7. How do radicals seek change?
8. What did President Hoover believe in?
9. What did Hoover feel Federal Relief would encourage people to do?
10. Where do you think the name Hoovervilles came from?
11. How did Hoover deal with failing banks?
12. Why was the trickle-down theory not working?
13. How did Hoover try and remove the Bonus army on July 28th 1932?
14. What was FDR’s relationship to Teddy Roosevelt?
15. Roosevelt promised the people a New Deal, to do whatever was needed……
16. Roosevelt won the Election of 1932 defeating Hoover, What were the electoral votes?
17. FDR presented Congress with a broad array of measures focusing on_____.
18. What is the AAA and who was it geared towards? Name ______Date ______Period______
Chapter 32: The Human Impact of the Great Depression
1. Who is Harry Hopkins?
2. From 1929-1933 what percentage of Americans were out of work?
3. When companies would lay people off, who would they let go first?
4. Why were the farmers in trouble even more during the Great Depression/
5. What did men loose along with their jobs?
6. What did the marriage rate decline too?
7. Why were people facing eviction?
8. Why did teenagers ride the railroads?
9. What did the surveys show us in the 1930’s about children and malnutrition?
10. Where were soup kitchens and breadlines so common?
11. What natural disasters affected the Great Plains?
12. What states were in the Dust Bowl Region?
13. What factors contributed to desertification?
14. What route did those in “The Grapes of Wrath” follow?
15. Where was the Great Flood of 1936?
16. Which state was hit the hardest?
17. How many students had to drop out of college in 1932-33?
18. What happened to charitable donations from 1930-1932?
19. What did Al Capone do in 1930?
20. What happened to the state and local public assistance funds? Name ______Date ______Period______Chapter 33: The New Deal and Its Legacy 1. List three facts from FDR’s childhood..
2. What were FDR’s radio chats called? What were they about?
3. FDR tried to fix the finincaial sector by passing the Banking Act of 1933, what did this act create? What did that insure our bank accounts up to?
4. What caused the 1929 Stock Market Crash?
5. What commission was created in 1934 to require companies to publish information about their businesses?
6. What three groups were targeted by the NIRA?
7. How did farmers loose purchasing power?
8. What did the TVA build?
9. What is the “forgotten man” referring to?
10. What did the Right Wing critics of the New Deal think?
11. What did the Left Wing critics think of the New Deal?
12. Who are Huey Long and Charles Coughlin?
13. What did the WPA build? Why did it generate controversy?
14. The Wagner Act created this Board which had the right to supervise union elections to ensure they were free and democratic.
15. Who did the Social Security Act benefit?
16. What bill was rejected in 1937 that dealt with the Supreme Court? FDR’s downfall as pres.
17. The United Mine Workers later took the name……
18. What did the Economy Act of 1932 prohibit?
19. What event outraged Eleanor Roosevelt in 1939 and showed her support for Civil Rights?
20. How did the New Deal affect American Indians and Mexicans?
21. Who was included in the New Deal Coalition?
22. What rights emerged from the New Deal?
23. How did FDR fund the Deficit?
24. List three legacies of the New Deal? (still last today)