1. The stock market crash of 1929 was the chief cause of the Great Depression.
   1. True
   2. False
2. President Hoover attempted to respond to the troubles of the agricultural and industrial economy by passing this law to promote domestic purchasing and limit international competition. It backfired as foreign nations passed similar laws and trade ground to a halt: _______________________________.
3. The American Yawp cites structural economic problems, speculation, and protectionism as key factors behind the Depression, alongside this human factor: ______________.
4. President Hoover believed in a sort of business progressivism which he called _______________________________. This called for voluntary action of businesses for serving those in need during the depression.
5. Hoover's rejection of a proposal to pay veterans of the First World War an early cash payout for their service and approval of a violent routing of a group of protestors from this group, called the _______________________________, symbolized his perceived insensitivity toward those suffering from the depression.
6. Parts of the Great Plains became known as the _______________________________ during the 1930s, due to the environmental catastrophe resulting from years of plowing up the deep rooted grass of the region combined with a long drought.
7. Short answer: Name two examples of popular depictions of migration during the Great Depression.
8. These informal events, the first of which concerned the banking crisis and the ways Roosevelt's government planned to address it, allowed the President to speak directly to the American people through their radios: _______________________________.
9. Roosevelt's First Hundred Days in office included numerous programs aimed at providing relief to the American people, and two programs designed to "stabilize and coordinate" the major sectors of the American economy. These two programs were called: _______________________________ and _______________________________.
10. Which of the following was NOT an effect of the New Deal in the hard-hit Southern and Appalachian regions?
    1. Farming was made profitable for sharecroppers and tenants
    2. National support for child labor laws and unionization helped raise wage standards to a level on par with the rest of the nation
    3. Life in rural regions was transformed by hydroelectric power and flood control programs
    4. Out-of-work miners were given opportunities to go "back-to-the-land" and live in homestead communities
11. This Louisiana senator represented perhaps the most significant criticism of Roosevelt, saying his New Deal had not gone far enough to overcome inequalities in individual wealth: _______________________________.
12. Listening to critics on the left and trying to overcome the Supreme Court's striking down of the NRA, Roosevelt's Second New Deal implemented laws protecting unions and wages. This new national organizationafter breaking with the more conservative, craftsman-based AFLgained a huge victory when auto workers at a GM plant in Flint, Michigan succeeded in gaining company recognition after their sit-down strike: _______________________________.
13. In implementing the Social Security Act, Roosevelt managed to combat criticisms that this would become a welfare entitlement by funding the program through this mechanism: _______________________________.
14. Short Answer: Name two ways in which the New Deal failed to help African American workers.
15. Two factors contributing to the demise of the New Deal were this plan to counteract potential overturning of earlier reform laws, _______________________________, and efforts to cut government spending, which led to this event, _______________________________.