Transcript Great Depression and Roaring Twenties Review

 In the late 1920s, there were no signs of the upcoming economic crash: FALSE
 Many Americans borrowed money in order to buy stock: TRUE
 The 1929 stock market crash was the direct cause of the Great Depression: TRUE
 Farmers were largely unaffected by the Depression: FALSE
 Overproduction was one of the major causes of the Great Depression: True
 The Republican Presidents favored tax cuts to the wealthy and little government
regulation of business to help promote economic growth: TRUE
 Many farmers who left the Dust Bowl found gainful employment in factories in the
cities: TRUE
 All Americans shared equally in the economic boom of the 1920s: FALSE
 Banks failed during the Depression, but not many businesses did. (FALSE)
 The high tariffs (taxes on imports) set by the US government during the 1920s
helped create a large volume of trade both to and from the U.S. (TRUE)
 Relief Program’s had little impact on NC’s people (TRUE)
 THE AA ordered the “plow up” of perfectly good crops. (TRUE)
 During the 1920s, young women did what?
 Voted in elections
 Cut their hair and wear short skirts
 Smoke, drink, and listen to jazz music
 For many Americans, the 1920s were a time of
 Raising living standards
 “Margin Buying” means
 Buying stock in a company with borrowed money
 “Black Tuesday”, or Tuesday October 29, 1929 is remembered as the day when
 The stock market crashed in a great wave of selling
 The Great Depression….
 Lasted longer than any other economic depression in American History
 What were the major purposes of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs?
 Relief for the hungry and homeless
 Recovery of the nation’s economic health
 Reform of banking and the stock market
 The New Deal Program that helps almost all Americans today is the
 Social Security Act
 As a result of the Great Depression and the New Deal, most Americans agreed that
one of the federal government’s most important responsibilities was
 Care for citizens in need
 The NRA came up with a code of _______________________ to help regulate
industry
 Conduct
 The President who was in control for most of the Great Depression was
 Herbert Hoover
 A major factor leading to the Dust Bowl was
 A drought that lead to dust storms which destroyed crops
 Roosevelt’s plan to bring the country out of the depression was called
 The New Deal
 Who is the doctor in the cartoon?
 What problem is the doctor
treating?
 This cartoon was probably
published…
 Franklin Roosevelt
 The economic depression
 During the New Deal
 In the early 1930s, may communities of homeless Americans were referred to as
“Hoovervilles” because President Hoover
 Opposed direct federal aid for the unemployed.
 As a way of criticizing the federal government during the early 1930s, areas such as
those shown in the photograph were referred to as
 Hoovervilles
 Much of the economic growth in the 1920s was created by
 Sales of new consumer goods
 Jim Crow Laws were passed
 Passed after the American Civil War
 Included restaurants, hotels, and other public places
 Were instituted in 1896 and were not abolished until the 1950s
 Dreams
 Hold fast to dreams
 For if dreams die
 Life is a broken-winged bird
 That cannot fly.
 Hold fast to dreams
 For when dreams go
 Life is a barren field
 Frozen with snow.
 — Langston Hughes
This poem, written during the Harlem
Renaissance, was most likely meant to
encourage African Americans to
 Look to the future
 The new concept of ________________________________ lead to people spending
money they did not have.
 Credit
 WWI lead to the Great Depression because
 The United States was a major credit loaner to other nations in need
 Many of the nations loaned money could not pay the United States back.
 The President at the start of the Great Depression was
 Herbert Hoover
 Hoover’s philosophy during the Great Depression was
 “We’ll make it”
 During the last three months I have visited, as I said, some twenty states of this wonderfully rich
land and beautiful country. Here are some of the things I heard and saw…
 A number of Montana citizens told me thousands of bushels of wheat left uncut on account of its
low price that hardly paid for harvesting…while I was in Oregon, the Portland Oregonian
bemoaned the fact that thousands of female sheep were killed by the sheep raisers because they
did not bring enough in the market to pay the freight on them. And while Oregon sheep raisers
fed mutton to the buzzards, I met men picking for meat scraps in the garbage cans of New York
City and Chicago…
 The roads of the West and Southwest teem with hungry hitchhikers…I saw men, women and
children walking over the hard roads. Most of them were tenant farmers who had lost their all…
 The farmers are being pauperized by the poverty of industrial populations, and the industrial
populations are being pauperized by the poverty of farmers. Neither has the money to buy the
product of the other…
 I have not come here to stir you in a recital of the necessity for relief for our suffering fellow
citizens. However, unless something is done for them and done soon, you will have a revolution on
your hands.
 Testimony of newspaper editor Oscar Ameringer
 What fact is found in the passage?
 Which opinion is found here?
 The word “pauperize” in the passage means to
 The passage ends with
 People are scavenging for food
 No one should be hungry and homeless in this rich land
 Impoverish or make poor
 A warning to Congress to act soon or risk revolution