Great Depression & New Deal

Question 1

1) The Stock Market Crash of 1929
2) Bank failures
3) A drought that lasted throughout the 1930s

Answer 1

Causes of Great Depression

Question 2

1) Economic depression
2) Extended drought and unusually high temperatures
3) Wind erosion from poor agricultural practices

Answer 2

Causes of Dust Bowl

Question 3

Shanty towns built by the homeless during the Great Depression. Named after President Hoover, who was blamed for the Depression.

Answer 3

Hoovervilles

Question 4

The belief that individuals can succeed with minimal governmental help. A belief of the Republican party in the 1920’s.

Answer 4

Rugged Individualism

Question 5

Series of domestic programs to combat the effects of the Great Depression on the U.S. economy from 1933 to 1939 created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Answer 5

New Deal

Question 6

An attempt to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices

Answer 6

Court Packing