Ch. 25 ArtFest Qs

2) What did the Bonus Army want the government to do?

WWI veterans w/out jobs wanted their promised $1,000 immediately.

3) What was the New Deal?

The new laws that Congress passed during the Hundred Days

- Civilian Conservation Corps

- Agricultural Adjustment Administration

- Tennessee Valley Authority

- National Recovery Administration

- Federal Emergency Relief Administration

- Public Works Administration

- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

4) How did the CCC benefit the unemployed as well as the nation?

During the next 10 years, it gave jobs to about 3 million men to work on projects that benefited the public ie planting trees to reforest areas, build levees, and improving national parks.

5) In what region was the Dust Bowl centered?

Western Kansas and Oklahoma

Northern Texas

New Mexico

Eastern Colorado

6) Summarize the advances made by African Americans and women during the Great Depression.

Women:

            - Worked more to make ends meet

            - Sewed own clothes

            - Baked own bread

            - Canned own vegetables

            - Some started home businesses

                        ~ Laundries

                        ~ Boardinghouses

African Americans:

            - Roosevelt appointed a number of African Americans to government posts

            - Continued to fight against prejudices

7) What was the purpose of the Social Security Act?

Provides monthly pensions for retired people

8) Describe two laws passed during the Second New Deal that helped workers and unions.

Works Progress Administration – gave jobs and helped the countries economy

Congress of Industrial Organizations – helped create industrial unions

9) How did the trend of buying on credit in the 1920s affect banks during the Depression?

-Small banks suffered when farmers failed to meet loan payments

-Big banks suffered losses in the stock market crash

-These losses forced thousands of banks across the nation to close

10) How did new technology help cause the Dust Bowl?

-Farmers used tractors and disc plows  (extensively) to cut millions of acre of sod for wheat farming

-They didn’t know that the roots of the grass had held the soil in place.

-During the severe drought when the crops dried up, the soil dried up as well. -Strong prairie winds blew he soil away too.

11) List two ways the federal government changed during Roosevelt’s administration.

-Tried to create more jobs for people

-Rebuilt the banking system to prevent further problems