USA Topic 1

Question 1

How many unemployed in 1929?

Answer 1

2.5 million

Question 2

How many unemployed by 1932?

Answer 2

13 million

Question 3

What fell when US economy collapsed?

Answer 3

World trade

Question 4

What was there a less demad for?

Answer 4

US consumer goods

Question 5

What workers were first to lose their jobs?

Answer 5

Black workers

Question 6

What percentage of white and black people were unemployed by 1933?

Answer 6

Black 50% White 20%

Question 7

What did people set up when they lost their homes?

Answer 7

Set up hoovervilles

Question 8

What did some unemployed people do?

Answer 8

Drifted across country looking for work on freight trains

Question 9

What happened in 1931 to crops and farmers?

Answer 9

There was a drought which ruined the crops, over 1 million farmers packed up their things and left to work in the fruit growing areas on the west coast

Question 10

What happened to marriages, birth rates and suicide rates?

Answer 10

By 1932, marriages fell by almost 250,000, birth rate fell, suicide rate increased to 17.4 suicides per 1000 people

Question 11

What percentage of population recieved no income?

Answer 11

25% by 1932

Question 12

Who won 1932 election?

Answer 12

Roosevelt

Question 13

Roosevelt= hoover=

Answer 13

Appealing, unpopular

Question 14

What made Roosevelt appealing?

Answer 14

Offered new solutions, via new deal based on 3 R’s (Relief, Recovery, Reform)

Question 15

What is Recovery and Reform? 3 Rs

Answer 15

To help restore the economy

Question 16

What did he put in place to ressure nation?

Answer 16

Fireside chats

Question 17

What was Alphabet Agencies?

Answer 17

Programmes designed to tackle depression

Question 18

What was Roosevelts approach?

Answer 18

Simple message but bold approach

Question 19

What did Roosevelt overcome?

Answer 19

Effects of polio which had paralysed him, but became a successful politician

Question 20

Who opposed new deal?

Answer 20

Huey long, politicians on both sides, supreme court

Question 21

What made Hoover unpopular?

Answer 21

Blamed for Great Depression, didnt offer any new solutions, banks and business continued to fail

Question 22

What did President Hoover do?

Answer 22

Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act 1930 (increased import tax on foreign good), cut taxes by $130m, repairs to roads & dams (got 1.8b from congress), Gov lent money to farmers

Question 23

What happened to unemployment despite all the things that President Hoover did?

Answer 23

Continued to rise 1931-1932

Question 24

Name an alphabet agency? And explain it?

Answer 24

AAA (agricultural adjustment act) -farmers paid to produce less, as production fell, prices would rise so farmers could recover. By 1936, incomes were 1.5 times higher than in 1933