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Depression Era exam review

Please refer to your notes and textbook for details related to these terms, concepts and historic figures. This exam will be multiple-choice only. There will not be a short answer section.

Note that questions from World War I/Roaring 20's exam will be included in this exam. Be sure to review the questions and answers right here.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Herbert Hoover

Dorothea Lange

Black Tuesday

buying on margin

speculation

FDIC

Glass-Steagall Banking Act

New Deal

WPA

buying on margin

speculation

 

Okies

Dustbowl

Orson Welles

SEC

increased role of government

causes of the Great Depression

first hundred days of Roosevelt's first term

court packing

criticism of the New Deal

impact of the New Deal

legacy and long-term effects of the Great Depression

presidential election of 1928