Great Depression and New Deal Test Review:
1. Be able to read charts & graphs!
2. What are 2 ways the government changed during the New Deal? How is that different from today?
3. Explain Roosevelt’s court packing scheme.
4. What were some of the criticisms of Roosevelt’s court packing scheme.
5. How did Roosevelt try to fix the Depression?
6. What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
7. What is the date and what is the day called for the answer to question #6?
8. Who was president when the Great Depression began?
9. What were shantytowns and why were they named after the president of the time?
10. Who was the most famous writer of the era, what is his most famous book and what was it about?
11. What was the purpose of Tennessee Valley Authority? (3 purposes)
12. What did the SSA do? (2 things)
13. What was the Dust Bowl and what states were most impacted by it and how could it have been
prevented?
14. Where did most farmers involved in the dust bowl move too, what did they plan to do once they got
there and why was it a burden on that state?
15. What does the FDIC do?
16. What three things could have affected/caused the dust bowl?
17. What does solvency mean?
18. What decade did the Great Depression occur?
19. What did the AAA, SEC, & WPA do?
20. What do the 14th and 22nd Amendments do?