Jeopardy Great Depression Review

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JeopardyGreat Depression Review

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Causes
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• What industry was in trouble during the 20s when
  everybody else was doing well?
• Farmers

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• Which tariff was passed that significantly
  reduced foreign trade?
• Haley-Smoot

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• Why did farmers have a surplus of goods in the
  20s?
• Overproduced for Europe during WWI

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• What cause of the Great Depression made prices
  drop?
• Overproduction

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• What is one cause of the stock market crash?
• Buying stocks on the Margin or Over-Speculation
  of stocks

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• He is the President who is blamed for the Great
  Depression.
• Hoover

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• He is the President given credit for ending the
  Great Depression.
• FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• What were the shelters built by homeless people
  called?
• Hoovervilles

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• What was the group of WWI veterans called who
  protested in the capital for more money?
• Bonus Army

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• According to FDR, what is the only thing we have
  to fear?
• Fear Itself

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• How did Roosevelts programs help Farmers?
• Paid them not to grow (AAA)

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• What did FDRs New Deal programs lead to?
• People looking to the government to solve their
  problems More power to the government

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• What groups did the New Deal support and
  legalize?
• Labor Unions

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• Why did many New Deal programs fail at first?
• Werent funded well enough

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• Which New Deal program was the most effective
  because it employed so many people? (ex artists)
• WPA Works Progress Administration

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• At the height of the Great Depression, how many
  people were unemployed in the U.S.?
• 25 or 15 million

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• What happened throughout the country to cause
  banks to close and people to lose all their
  savings?
• Bank Runs

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• Why did people use humor during the Great
  Depression?
• To escape their reality (escapism)

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• When the Dust Bowl hit the Great Plains, where
  did many people escape to?
• West (California)

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• Why did people still go to the movies during the
  Great Depression?
• To escape their reality (escapism)

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• What year did the Great Depression start?
• 1929

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• Overproduction was a major cause of the Great
  Depression. What effect did over production have
  on prices?
• Dropped

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• Why did the Dust Bowl happen?
• Drought and over farming

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• Due to the hardships of the Great Depression, how
  did people begin to view the government?
• As a crutch to lean on

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• When studying the Great Depression, if you read a
  article written in 1933, what kind of source is
  it?
• Primary

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Final Jeopardy

• What economic philosophy, used by many presidents
  in the past, would no longer be used after the
  Great Depression?

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Answer

• Laissez-Faire