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How much did farm incomes fall between 1929 and
1933?
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60%
How many shares were sold on 24th October 1924?
How did banks react to the Depression and how this
effect people?
1.3 million
Demanded loans be paid at once—which forced
people to sell their homes and business.
How many firms went bankrupt during the
Depression?
How much did the average wage per week during the
Depression?
100,000
From $28 a week to $22 a week.
1933 saw the highest rate of unemployment. What
percentage of the population was unemployed?
Miskick.
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25%
What were the shanty towns made of scrap materials
where the homeless lived called?
How many people were homeless during the
Depression?
250,000
A Hooverville
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Miskick.
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The Emergency Relief Act saw Hoover offer money to
states to help the unemployed. How much did he
offer?
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$300 million
How much did Hoover spend on construction
projects?
How many people were unemployment in 1932 and
1933?
1932
12 million
$4000 million
1933
14 million
What did Hoover do to tariffs to protect American
jobs?
How much did Hoover offer the Bonus Army to pay
for transport home?
Raised them.
$100,000
What did Hoover do to taxes to encourage the
economy to grow?
When Hoover had General MacArthur break up a
Bonus Army camp in Washington how many people
died?
Cut them.
4
What was the name of the dam built in 1931 that
blocked the Colorado River?
What was the name of the ex-servicemen protest
group that marched on Washington in 1932?
Hoover Dam
The Bonus Army
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Miskick.
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Good banks were allowed to reopen. How much did
the government guarantee of each persons savings?
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$2500
How many Banks were closed down in 1933?
4004
Miskick.
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How many extra staff were taken in to deal with all
the letters written to FDR after the fireside chats?
50
How many days were the banks closed down by the
Emergency Banking Relief Act?
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4
Name one job the CWA offered during the winter of
1933/4?
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Pigeon scaring and drainage pipe laying.
What were the Radio Broadcasts that FDR made to
the American people called?
Name one job the FERA offered during the winter of
1933/4?
Stuffing mattreses.
Fireside Chats
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Name two ways that the War created jobs:
Give three facts about Huey Long.
Thought the New Deal didn’t go far enough
Conscription of young men.
Senator for Louisiana
Making tanks etc for the army
Wanted to take all money over $3 million from people
Selling weapons to GB / USSR [Lease Lend]
Was assassinated.
American firms took British export markets.
Give two reasons why did the New Deal not help Black
People as much as white?
Name two ways the TVA helped?
Provided irrigation
Discrimination—less likely to be to selected by WPA
etc.
As famr workers—sacked as a result of AAA.
Prevented floods
Cheap hydroelectricity
Planted trees
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Which two organisations did the Supreme Court rule
was illegal because it took away states powers?
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NRA
AAA.
What was unemployment in 1937?
In what year did unemployment go up again?
6 million
1938
What did the HOLC [Home Owners Loan Corporation]
do?
Why could the TVA do what states couldn’t?
Give cheap loans to encourage people to buy houses.
It had authority over an area covering 8 states. .
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Miskick.
Name two ways the NRA tried to help the people?
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Outlawed child labour
Set out fair wages
Right to join a trade union.
Name two things the PWA built.
Name two things the WPA built.
From..
From..
Built roads [50,000 miles]; schools, dams, battleships.
1000 airstrips, schools, hospitals, playgrounds, survey
historic sites, recorded 10,000 American voices,
workers education.
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What did the young men in the CCC do?
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[any of the following]
Planted trees [1.3 billion]
Worked in national forests / parks
Built Appalachian trail.
Why was the AAA bad for farm workers?
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They were sacked as they weren’t needed any more.
How did the AAA pay farmers to do?
How did the AAA help farmers—apart from paying
them?
Paid them to kill livestock / destroy plants.
It pushed food prices up—increasing farmers incomes.
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