Great Depression Notes

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Chapters 23, 24, and 25

Chapter 23

1. What crippling disease affected Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
2. What are the symptoms of that disease?
3. How did William Phillips describe FDR?

Chapter 24

4. What were the ideas contained in FDR’s “New Deal”?
5. How many states did Roosevelt win in the election of 1932?

Chapter 25

6. What is a Pragmatist?
7. What did former President Calvin Coolidge have to say about the Depression?
8. What was “the Brain Trust”, and why did FDR call them together?
9. List at least three things that the New Deal did.
10. What was the Social Security Act?
11. What was the “Aristocracy of Talent”?

Chapter 16/17

1. What does it mean to buy stock on margin?
2. What does a stock broker do?
3. Why were banks in trouble due to the crash?
4. Who is hurt most during an economic depression?
5. How was the Great Depression different from others?
6. What did the census of 1920 show?
7. What advantage did farmers have during the depression when compared to people in the cities?
8. What caused the Dust Bowl?
9. What states were directly affected by the Dust Bowl?
10. How had farmers been irresponsible?
11. What was a “Hooverville” and how did they get their name?
12. How many people were living in Hoovervilles by 1933?

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