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$100 Question from Road To

Depression

What event occurred on Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929)?

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Depression

The Stock Market Crashed.

Investors sold more than 16 million shares of stock causing the stock market to crash.

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Depression

European countries reacted to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff by doing this.

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Depression

Passing high protective tariffs of their own

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Depression

This group of individuals experienced an early depression in the 1920s.

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Depression

Farmers

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Depression

What consumer factors helped hide economic problems in the 1920s?

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Depression

(Buying on Credit)

Americans were purchasing many consumer goods on credit.

$500 Question from Road To

Depression

List at least four of the eight major causes of the Great Depression.

(All of which started in the 1920s)

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1. Consumers buying on credit2. Businesses failed3. Farms failed4. Banks failed5. International trade dropped by 70%6. Prices on agricultural products dropped7. Unemployment rose8. Stock market speculation

$100 Question from Alphabet Soup

This organization planted millions of trees.

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CCCCivilian Conservation Corps

$200 Question from Alphabet Soup

Roosevelt created the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate this.

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Regulate the Stock Market

$300 Question from Alphabet Soup

This organization was created to insure peoples’ money and stop bank runs.

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(FDIC)Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

$400 Question from Alphabet Soup

This New Deal program extended job opportunities to Mexican Americans and other minority

youth?

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(CCC)Civilian Conservation Corps

$500 Question from Alphabet Soup

Critics disapproved of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) because it did this.

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It gave the government direct control of a business

$100 Question from The New Deal

What was the chief complaint of conservatives against the New Deal?

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It made government too powerful.

$200 Question from The New Deal

The Rural Electrification Administration provided electricity to this group of

individuals.

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Farmers

$300 Question from The New Deal

The right to collective bargaining was part of this act.

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The Wagner Act

(This act made labor unions legal)

$400 Question from The New Deal

Why was The American Liberty League (ALL) formed?

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To oppose FDR’s New Deal

$500 Question from The New Deal

A significant flaw of this act meant that it did not apply to domestics or farm-workers at first.

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The Social Security Act

$100 Question from Essays

How did the Great Depression impact families? How did the conditions of the time period emphasize the usage of the term Great Depression? How did families cope with hard times?

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$200 Question from Essays

Why was President Hoover unsuccessful in ending the Great Depression? What were two ideas Hoover had that led to his cautious response to the economic troubles of the United States? Why do you think these ideas failed?

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$300 Question from Essays

What was significant about President Franklin Roosevelt’s “First Hundred Days” in office? What were three of the programs created during this First New Deal? Which one do you think had the most impact in helping Americans during these tough times? Why?

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$400 Question from Essays

How did minorities fair during the Great Depression? Why do you think minorities did not benefit as much from the numerous government programs of the New Deal?

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$500 Question from Essays

What two government programs created during the Great Depression do you consider successful? Why? What was one program you think failed? Why?

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$100 Question from Miscellaneous

This President responded cautiously to the Great Depression

he thought the business cycle would correct itself.

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President Hoover

$200 Question from Miscellaneous

What economic condition did economist John Maynard Keynes

believe caused the Great Depression?

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Lack of government intervention

(Keynesian Economics: The government needs to prime the pump)

$300 Question from Miscellaneous

The policy of volunteerism called for this.

$300 Answer from Miscellaneous

Companies should volunteer to keep their doors open and not fire

employees.

$400 Question from Miscellaneous

Both of these groups faced discrimination when competing with white Americans for a limited number of jobs.

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Mexican Americans and African Americans

$500 Question from Miscellaneous

Congress instituted this organization to loan money to banks so that they could lend

money to businesses to stimulate economic activity.

“A Trickle Down Program”

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(RFC)Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Final Jeopardy

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What were three long term and two short term causes of the Great Depression? Which cause do you think had the most

impact? Why?

Long Term Causes1.Consumers buying on credit2.World wide economic decline (International trade dropped by 70%)3.Overproduction (Business failed / Farms Failed)

Short Term Causes1.Stock Market Crash (Due to Speculation)2.Banks Failed (Due to bank runs)

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