What were the worst years of the Great Depression? 1929-1937 2. What President is the man talking about that created the New Deal? President Roosevelt 3. Why is the man telling the people to give a man a job? To reduce or end the unemployment rate and get people in jobs 4. What Era has now ended? The jazz age 5. Who are the new poor? People who have recently lost jobs 6. What did the Farmers Holiday Association do in Iowa? Block the flow of farm product to city in attempt to force prices up. 7. What was a large cause of the Great Depression? Overproduction 8. Why were banks forced to close? Because people where taking out all of their money 9. Who is elected over Herbert Hoover? Franklin D. Roosevelt 10. What did Roosevelt say people had to fear? Fear itself 11. With the poor increasing what did many private charities provide? Soup kitchens/food/coats 12. When and where did The Unemployed March for Relief happen? November 24th, 1934 in Chicago 13. What do the marches want? cash relief 14. Where is the Cochita Indian Reservation? New Mexico 15. What is the Native American upset about and give an example? Unfair treatment of the Native Americans an example is Native American killed for breaking laws where as white man not. 16. Where did these dance marathons occur? Chicago 17. What is the dance competition for? Dance endurance 18. During the Jazz age before the Great Depression what where Americans buying on? Margin/credit 19. What happens in October 1929 in the stock market? It goes down dramatically 20. Why does she suggest to keep any money you have rather than playing the stock market? Because she lost so much money 21. When and where was the Union Textile Worker’s Strike? September 10th 1934, Concord, NC 22. The great dust storms in the Midwest added to the devastating economic effects of the __________ in the mid-1930s. Depression 23. In the Midwest people would just up and move where because of the dustbowl? West/Pacific coast 24. What workers were greatly utilized to fight the ravages of dust storms and floods? WPA and CCC workers 25. What river caused all of this damage and made many people homeless because it flooded? The Mississippi. 26. What did the WPA build for farmers? Secondary roads that were weather proof. 27. What other projects did the WPA work on? Reservoirs, dams, stadiums, bridges 28. What development helped bring disease down in cities? Better sewage systems 29. What are unskilled laborers now doing to meet the changing needs of the modern world? Rebuilding schools, public buildings, community centers and airports. 30. What does the WPA stand for, use your book! Works Progress Administration
What were the worst years of the Great Depression? 1929-1937
ReplyDelete2. What President is the man talking about that created the New Deal? President Roosevelt
3. Why is the man telling the people to give a man a job? To reduce or end the unemployment rate and get people in jobs
4. What Era has now ended? The jazz age
5. Who are the new poor? People who have recently lost jobs
6. What did the Farmers Holiday Association do in Iowa? Block the flow of farm product to city in attempt to force prices up.
7. What was a large cause of the Great Depression? Overproduction
8. Why were banks forced to close? Because people where taking out all of their money
9. Who is elected over Herbert Hoover? Franklin D. Roosevelt
10. What did Roosevelt say people had to fear? Fear itself
11. With the poor increasing what did many private charities provide? Soup kitchens/food/coats
12. When and where did The Unemployed March for Relief happen? November 24th, 1934 in Chicago
13. What do the marches want? cash relief
14. Where is the Cochita Indian Reservation? New Mexico
15. What is the Native American upset about and give an example? Unfair treatment of the Native Americans an example is Native American killed for breaking laws where as white man not.
16. Where did these dance marathons occur? Chicago
17. What is the dance competition for? Dance endurance
18. During the Jazz age before the Great Depression what where Americans buying on? Margin/credit
19. What happens in October 1929 in the stock market? It goes down dramatically
20. Why does she suggest to keep any money you have rather than playing the stock market? Because she lost so much money
21. When and where was the Union Textile Worker’s Strike? September 10th 1934, Concord, NC
22. The great dust storms in the Midwest added to the devastating economic effects of the __________ in the mid-1930s. Depression
23. In the Midwest people would just up and move where because of the dustbowl? West/Pacific coast
24. What workers were greatly utilized to fight the ravages of dust storms and floods? WPA and CCC workers
25. What river caused all of this damage and made many people homeless because it flooded? The Mississippi.
26. What did the WPA build for farmers? Secondary roads that were weather proof.
27. What other projects did the WPA work on? Reservoirs, dams, stadiums, bridges
28. What development helped bring disease down in cities? Better sewage systems
29. What are unskilled laborers now doing to meet the changing needs of the modern world? Rebuilding schools, public buildings, community centers and airports.
30. What does the WPA stand for, use your book! Works Progress Administration