Video Worksheet: The Great Depression and the New Deal

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The Great Crash and the Great Engineer

__1) What was the nickname given to homeless men who took to the roads after the stock market crash of 1929 caused increased unemployment in America?

__2) Name the two key positions that Herbert Hoover held during the First World war and Coolidge administration?

__3) What was the name given to makeshift communities of boxes and tin shacks that sprang up during the Depression?

__4) Name the agency created during the Hoover administration, which led money to struggling banks and railroads.

The First New Deal

__5) During Roosevelt's first inaugural address, what did he say with the nation's greatest primary task?

__6) What was the name given to the flurry of legislation that formed the core of Roosevelt's first New Deal?

__7) What was the first problem that the new president faced after taking office?

__8) Name the New Deal law that helped the nation's industries get back on their feet?

__9) What was the name given to the region of America that was ravaged by storms and droughts from the Oklahoma panhandle to western Kansas?

__10) What was the New Deal agency that paid farmer's to limit their production in order to raise food prices?

__11) Harry Hopkins was the director of which New Deal agency that put men to work?

A Revolution in Sight and Sound / Women, African-Americans...

__12) What was the name of the speeches Roosevelt made that helped Americans feel as though he was speaking directly to them?

__13) Which two groups of Americans used Eleanor Roosevelt as a bridge to gain access to her husband, the President?

The First New Deal Under Fire / The Kingfish and the Communists

__14) Which part of the Constitution did the Supreme Court say the NRA violated?

__15) Which Louisiana politician said Americans needed money and proposed giving it to them by taxing the rich?

__16) What was the name of Long's movement, which hated big government as well as big business, had gained over 4 million followers?

__17) Which political party, attracting a variety of Americans, called for equality between workers and African Americans and worker ownership of business and industry?

The Second New Deal

__18) Created to calm the fears of senior citizens, which New Deal program created the nation's first federal old age insurance system?

__19) To appeal to workers, which law required companies to bargain with any union that its workers chose and protected the rights of workers?

The Court Packing Plan

__20) How many justices did Roosevelt propose to be on the Supreme Court in order to gain support for his new Deal programs?

__21) In what year did the United States plunge back into a deep recession?

The Legacy of the New Deal

__22) What is the term for government spending more money than it takes in?

__23) The New Deal increased involvement of the Federal government in the lives of ordinary Americans. It laid the foundation for the modern ________  _________  because it increased spending to help the poor and improve the welfare of the nation's citizens.

__24) What percentage of the American population received direct assistance from the Federal government during the New Deal years?

__25) Economic depression in Europe helped bring about which kind of leaders in Germany and Italy?

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