Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal

Question 1

How many Americans were unemployed during the Great Depression?

Answer 1

10 million

Question 2

How much did stocks decrease by in 1929-1933?

Answer 2

$87 billion to $33 billion

Question 3

How much did farm prices plummet in 1929?

Answer 3

60%

Question 4

How many institutions failed in 5 years?

Answer 4

10,000

Question 5

Auto-registration jumped from how much in the 1920s?

Answer 5

9 million to 27 million

Question 6

How many dust storms were there in 1933?

Answer 6

38

Question 7

Emergency banking bill 1933

Answer 7

Stabilise banking system ad place federal government involved in system

Question 8

Social security act 1935

Answer 8

Federal insurance to insurance schemes for elderly and out of work

Question 9

How many million single men 17-23 were put to work in nations forest building reservoirs and planting trees for $30 a month?

Answer 9

3 million

Question 10

How many people were involved in the WPA- relief program creating new buildings, airports, fixing roads for $41 a month?

Answer 10

8.5 million

Question 11

How many trees planted on plains to help tackle problems of dust bowl- recreating ecology of environment to protect farming?

Answer 11

200 million

Question 12

Negatives

Answer 12

• Slums in NYC or immigrants living conditions polar opposites
• Pollution- gang life- slums
• Provided a lot of jobs for arriving immigrants- low wages
• Rapid period of growth and sophistication for big cities
• No safety regulations- treatment of environment- workers being treated badly
• Citizens questioning moral responsibility- worried if the new imigrants had social harmony- progreeive era tackles this issue like with the orohbiton and womens suffrage
• Moved there for prosperity and nations let them down
• Starvation
• Disease
• Civil unrest, rioting
• People feared this was the end of capitalism
• People didn’t have good enough wages to afford all this
• Agriculture too much- priced dropping too much supply loss of demand
• Economic debt of ww1 put strain and pressure on country
• Wall street crash highlighted economic problems of high demand and rising debt
• Banks struggled as gave too much credit out and couldn’t get money back
• Government needed to take stronger role

Question 13

What were the education reforms?

Answer 13

Education programs on great plains teaching them how to save their land and avoid erosion