Name: US Studies: Great Depression

Study Guide

1. Why did the Stock Market crash in 1929?

2. Why did African-Americans have an especially difficult time during the Great Depression
compared to whites?

3. What was President Hoover’s goal for the RFC?

4. What was the purpose of the Bonus Army march?

5. Why did many banks collapse and go out of business at the beginning of the Great
Depression?

6. What happened to world trade after the Hawley-Smoot tariff passed the US Congress?

7. Why did the Dust Bowl happen?

8. Why did President Hoover responded cautiously to the Great Depression?

9. What was the chief complaint of Conservative Republicans against the New Deal?

10.Why did FDR want to “pack” the Supreme Court?

11.What forms of entertainment were most popular during the 1930s? Why?

12.Why was the 1932 election a turn away from laissez-faire capitalism?

13.What was the purpose of the Bank Holiday?

 14.What ended the New Deal?

15.What were the differences between the First and Second New Deals?

Define these (short answers):

16.FDIC:

17.AAA:

18.Social Security:

19.Wagner Act:

20.CCC: