Great Depression Test Review

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Great Depression Test Review
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Make Sure You Know the Following.

• CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
• Relief/Reform program for young men
• Planted trees
• Built bridges
• TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
• Relief because it provided jobs
• Reform because the changes made life better
• Damns built on Tennessee River

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Make Sure You Know the Following

• FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Reform because it changed the banking industry
• Insured bank deposits
• PWA Public Works Administration
• Recovery because it built ports and schools,
  boosted industry and kept workers on the job.

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Six Causes Of The Depression

• 1. The Stock Market crash
• 2. Farmers in trouble
• 3. Overproduction/consumers buying less
• 4. Uneven distribution of wealth
• 5. Banks made unwise loans
• 6. Economy slowed leading to an International
  Depression

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What was the date of the Stock Market Crash?

• TUESDAY,
• OCTOBER 29, 1929

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3 Goals of the New Deal

• 1. Relief
• 2. Recovery
• 3. Reform

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Know ALL Depression Vocabulary!!!!
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Study guide review

• What was the Bonus Army March?
• WWI veterans demanded the money they were
  promised at the end of the war.
• The government didnt have the money
• The President called in troops to remove Bonus
  Army, force the to leave Washington DC
• Several people were killed.
• Veterans did not receive their bonus

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Study guide review

• Where did the Dust Bowl occur?
• Great Plains
• What were reasons for the Dust Bowl?
• Over plowing/planting
• Drought
• High winds
• What effects did the Dust Bowl have on farmers?
• Many farmers moved to California and Florida
  and/or became migrant workers

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Study guide review

• FDR and the Supreme Court
• 1. Some of the Supreme Court Justices thought
  many of the New Deal Programs were
  unconstitutional
• 2. FDR wanted to increase the number of justices
  from 9 to 15 to have more influence on the Court.
• 3. Was this fair? No
• 4. Did the new justices, that FDR wanted on the
  Supreme Court, support or oppose the New Deal?
  Support it.
• 5. Did Roosevelt get to appoint new justices?
  No.

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Study guide review

• Roosevelt held informal radio talks given weekly
  from the White House called fireside chats.

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STUDY GUIDE REVIEW

• Who were migrant workers?
• They were farmers that moved to California and
  Florida. They moved from place to place to
  harvest fruits and vegetables.
• Who was Dorothea Lange?
• She was a photographer during the
• Depression who took pictures of the
• homeless and helpless.

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Study guide review

• What was the Social Security Act?
• The Social Security Act (SSA) set up a system of
  pensions for the elderly, unemployed, and people
  with disabilities.
• What were the Hundred Days?
• The Hundred Days was a special session of
  Congress that Roosevelt called to launch his New
  Deal Programs.
• Who was Frances Perkins?
• She was the first woman EVER to be appointed to a
  presidential cabinet (appointed by FDR).

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Did FDRs New Deal end the Depression?

• NO!!!!

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EXIT SLIP

• Write me 1-2 sentences on the most valuable thing
  youve learned about the Great Depression. Due
  at the end of class!