The Depression, New Deal and Society

Question 1

what were the benefits of having a car?

Answer 1

more people could travel to cinemas, sports venues and shopping centre

Question 2

how many homes had a radio by 1939?

Answer 2

28million

Question 3

name two radio shows

Answer 3

Comedian - Jack Benny

Soap - Our Gal Sunday

Question 4

name a famous baseball team

Answer 4

the Harlem Globetrotters

Question 5

What type of film replaced silent ones?

Answer 5

talkies

Question 6

give an example of a famous film and its stars

Answer 6

Swing Time

starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Question 7

which book - adapted to a film - replicated the lives of Americans during The Depression?

Answer 7

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Question 8

how many banks collapsed by 1932?

Answer 8

5,000

Question 9

what did the collapse of banks lead to?

Answer 9

millions lost their savings leading to a loss of confidence so people wouldn’t trust the banks

Question 10

how many cars sold in 1932 comparing to 1932?

Answer 10

1929: 4.5million
1932: 1million

Question 11

how many Americans were unemployed?

Answer 11

14million (25% of the adult population)

Question 12

by how much did wages fall by?

Answer 12

60%

Question 13

how many Americans had their home repossessed?

Answer 13

250,000

Question 14

what were Hoovervilles?

Answer 14

shanty towns named after the President

Question 15

how many farmers lost their farms?

Answer 15

1/5

Question 16

evidence that Hoover was a “do-nothing” president

Answer 16

Believed in Laissez-faire so did not interfere

Didn’t think the government should pay unemployment money

Introduced the Hawley Smoot Tariff which placed even higher taxes on imports which countries replied with higher taxes on their own exports

blocked the Garner-Wagner Relief Bill which would have let confessions spend $2.1billion to create jobs

Hoovervilles

The Bonus Marchers

Question 17

give an account of the Bonus Marchers

Answer 17

250,000 veterans demanded their bonus of $500 in 1932 rather than 1945

Hoover refused to see them so sent the army to attack their camps

Hoover claimed the marchers were communist of criminals - public disagreed and we’re annoyed by the President

Question 18

evidence Hoover DID help out

Answer 18

cut taxes by $160million

asked congress to give $423million for public work programme

set up Reconstruction Finance Comission to make loans for businesses in trouble

Question 19

how many votes did Roosevelt win by in the 1932 election?

Answer 19

7million

Question 20

when was the second new deal?

Answer 20

1935

Question 21

name the four aspects of the second new deal

Answer 21

Wagner Act - forced employers to allow trade unions to work in their companies

Social Security Act - provided state pensions for the elderly and widows.
Set up unemployment insurance which paid a fund each week to receive benefit of unemployed

Works Progress Administration - created jobs did unemployed office workers, artists, actors and photographers

Resettlement Administration - helped small-scale farmers with loans and moved 500,000 families to better homes