U. S. Studies II Great Depression & New Deal Review Game.

U. S. Studies II

Great Depression & New Deal

Review Game

1920s Great Depression

New Deal Markets

New Deal Welfare

Review of the New Deal

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A1

A share of ownership in a company.

Stock

A2

The maintenance of a price at a certain level through government interaction.

Price Support

A3

This is an arrangement in which consumers agree to buy now and pay later for purchases,

often on an installment plan that includes interest charges.

Credit

A4

This Republican won the presidential election of 1928.

Herbert Hoover

A5

This term refers to making extremely risky business

transactions on the chance of making quick or considerable

profits.

Speculation

A6

This term is the name of the most widely used measure of

the stock market’s health.

Dow Jones Industrial Average

A7

Pictorial Daily Double

Actress: Jennifer Love Hewitt

A8

This term refers to paying a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and

borrowing the rest.

Buying on Margin

A9

In calling shantytowns “Hoovervilles,” people

conveyed their:

Disgust with President Hoover

A10

During the 1920s, how did farmers try to boost profits during these tough times?

Farmers tired to increase production, and make more

profits.

B1

This is the period from 1924 to 1940 in which the economy

plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed.

Great Depression

B2

A neighborhood in which people live in makeshift

shacks.

Shantytown

B3

Cash payments or food provided by the

government to the poor.

Direct Relief

B4

In calling shantytowns “Hoovervilles,” people

conveyed their:

Disgust with President Hoover

B5

Audio Daily Double

Country: Faith Hill – “Breathe”

B6

Herbert Hoover’s approach to the Depression economy was based on a belief in:

Direct Government Relief

B7

This reduced the flow of goods into the United States and

prevented other countries from earning American currency to

buy American exports.

Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act

B8

An example of psychological stress caused

by the Great Depression was the rise in the number of:

People committed suicide.

B9

The region, including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado,

and New Mexico, that was made worthless for farming by drought and ---- storms.

Dust Bowl.

B10

Video Daily Double

TV Show: “The Shield”

C1

What was the first major action Roosevelt took as

president?

He called the first meeting of the “Brain Trust.”

C2

Government agency set up by the Federal Securities Act to regulate the Stock Market.

Securities Exchange Commission

C3

This authorized the Treasury Department to inspect banks and to close those that were unsound, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system.

Emergency Banking Relief Act

C4

This established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), with the greater goal of

restoring public confidence in the banking system.

Glass-Steagall Banking Act

C5

This required corporations to provide complete information on

all stock offerings, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the stock market.

Federal Securities Act

Pictorial Daily Double

Actor:

C6

Pierce Brosnan

C7

Government agency that grants loans to homeowners who faced foreclosure because they could not meet loan payments.

Home Owners Loan Corporation

C8

Government agency that set prices of many products, established standards for

working hours, and a ban on child labor.

National Recovery Administration

C9

Government agency that furnishes loans for home mortgages and repairs.

Federal Housing Administration

C10

Why did the U.S. Supreme Court declare that the National

Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) as unconstitutional?

The NIRA gave legislative powers to executive branch.

D1

Program designed to alleviate the problems of the Great

Depression, focusing on relief for the needy, economic

recovery, and financial reform.

New Deal

D2

Pictorial Daily Double

Entertainment:Kirsten Dunst

D3

This paid farmers to lower production and, in some cases, to

destroy crops, with the greater goal of raising crop prices and

farm income.

Agricultural Adjustment Act

D4

This helped to create prosperity in a poverty-stricken region by providing funds to build and repair dams, flood-control projects, and power plants.

Tennessee Valley Authority

D5

The Wagner Act set up which of the following government agencies?

National Labor Relations Board

D6

The ___ reflected President Roosevelt’s concern for the

natural environment.

Civilian Conservation Corps

D7

Which group did the National Labor Relations Board

help to support in American industry?

Unions

D8

Of the New Deal policies, ___ had the biggest

long-term impact on the American economy:

Social Security Act

D9

Audio Daily Double

Country:Lee Ann Womack

D10

The Supreme Court ruled that the ___ was unconstitutional on the grounds that its provisions

were local matters and should be regulated by the states.

Agricultural Adjustment Act

E1

Even though the economy was not back to normal,

what event distracted President Roosevelt from his New Deal programs?

Rise of Hitler in Europe

E2

What reached a new high during Roosevelt’s first

term as president?

National Debt

E3

What is the legacy of the Agricultural Adjustment Act

for the United States?

The U.S. government would again use agricultural price supports to

help aid U.S. farmers.

E4

Government agency that regulates the Banking Industry, and provides

deposit insurance ($100,000)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

E5

Government agency that regulates the Stock Market

and the companies that trade stock on the market.

Securities Exchange Commission

E6

New Deal legislation that provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses and

aided people with disabilities, poor mothers with dependent children,

and the needy elderly:

Social Security Act

E7

How did the Liberals criticize the New Deal?

The New Deal did not go far enough to socialize the economy,

and to eliminate social and economic inequalities.

E8

Why did the U.S. government financially support the

photojournalist efforts of photographing the suffering of rural

America?

To provide the U.S. public pictorial evidence of how bad the conditions

were in rural America.

E9

Video Daily Double

Drama: “Patriot”

E10

How did the Conservatives criticize the New Deal?

The New Deal made the government too large and

too powerful.

F1

What role did Eleanor Roosevelt

play in the Roosevelt administration?

Advisor on domestic policy.

F2

This term refers to the stock market crash of

October 29, 1929.

Black Tuesday

F3

Period of rising stock prices.

Bull Market

F4

Which is the northernmost dam

illustrated on this map?

Kentucky

Interpreting Maps Formal Assessment – Map Skills –– p289

F5

According to the cartoon, _____ will benefit from the

NRA death warrant.

Small Business & Wall Street

Interpreting Political CartoonsFormal Assessment – Political Cartoons –– p290

F6

In the cartoon, the character that represents Child Labor feels __ about the NRA death warrant.

Unhappy

Interpreting Political CartoonsFormal Assessment – Political Cartoons –– p290

F7

This created an administration that set fair prices on many

products and established labor standards, with the greater goal of

ensuring fair business practices and promoting industrial growth.

National Industrial Recovery Act

F8

As the unemployment rates rose, how did this

affect consumer spending?

Consumers had less money to spend, so they

purchased less.

F9

This put almost 3 million young men to work building roads, developing parks, and helping in soil-erosion and

flood-control projects.

Civilian Conservation Corps

F10

If you were traveling east along the Tennessee River, which

dam would you encounter next passing the Wheeler Dam?

Guntersville

Interpreting Maps Formal Assessment – Map Skills –– p289