Unit 6 – The Great Depression and The New Deal
Study Guide/Review
Know all of the terms and people from Chapter 14 and Chapter 15 and the following:
John Steinbeck Dorothea Lange hoboes
direct relief Herbert Hoover Dust Bowl
Entitlement Programs Strict Construction 1929
Judicial Interpretation Wizard of Oz National Debt
Powell v. Alabama Woody Guthrie
Federal Art Project Fair Labor Standards Act
Home Owners Loan Corporation Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Federal Writers’ Project Emergency Banking Relief Act
Social Security Act (SSA)
1. What were the human factors the caused the Dust Bowl and
their effects on people?
2. What were the physical factors that caused the Dust Bowl and
their effects on the environment?
3. What were the effects of the Great Depression on the U.S.
Economy?
4. What were the effects of the Great Depression on U.S. society?
5. In what ways did people show their disgust for President
Hoover?
6. What were the psychological effects on the Depression on
people?
(TURN OVER)
7. Describe Herbert Hoover’s approach to dealing with the
Depression.
8. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
9. What were the long-range effects of the Depression?
10. What caused the farming crisis in the 1920s?
11. Who were the presidential candidates in 1932?
12. What were the effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?
13. Are Social Security and Medicare, as they are now solvent programs?
14. Roosevelt believed in what approaches to bringing the U.S. out of the
Depression?
15. What are the 3 parts of the New Deal?
16. What was the impact of the New Deal? And what is it’s long-term
impact?
17. What Constitutional issue that was raised by Roosevelt’s court packing
attempt and what was its impact?
18. What were the defining characteristics of the era?
19. What was the first action Roosevelt did as president?
20. What was the role of Eleanor Roosevelt in the Roosevelt administration?
Know how supply and demand works.
Be able to analyze a political cartoon.