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G.D. Study Questions
Question | Answer |
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1. How did the good times during the 1920s lead to some of the problems during the Great Depression? | |
2. What was the Great Depression? | |
3. What were three causes of the Great Depression? | |
4. What is a tariff? | |
5. How did the US having high tariffs hurt international trade? | |
6. When other countries saw we had high tariffs on some of their goods, what did they do? | |
7. What is the Federal Reserve? | |
8. Is the Federal Reserve still around? | |
9. What was/is a run on a bank? | |
10. Why didn't the banks just give everyone his or her money back when they asked for it? | |
11. If someone didn't have any money in the bank or stock market, they were not affected by the Great Depression,right? | |
12. See questions #11, explain your answer. | |
13. Who was president when the Great Depression started? | |
14. What did he think was going to happen with the money problems in the country? | |
15. Was he right? | |
16. Who was president next? | |
17. What was his program called? | |
18. Where did many homeless people set up camp when they lost their homes? (What did they call those places?) | |
19. How long did the Great Depression last? | |
20 .We know for sure that FDR's programs cured the Great Depression? | |
21. What was the Dust Bowl? ( I'll start you off, "The Dust Bowl was an area of the country that...) | |
22. What did many farmers have to do if they had farms in the Dust Bowl? | |
23. Was the Dust Bowl a cause of the Great Depression? | |
24. What caused the Dust Bowl? | |
25. What was a fire side chat? | |
26. What percent of US workers were unemployed during the Great Depression? |