Starter quiz
- Write the missing word. When people are extremely poor and struggle to meet some of their basic needs, we can say they are living in ______.
- 'poverty' ✓
- Which event triggered the Great Depression?
- World War One
- Wall Street Crash ✓
- World Disarmament Conference
- World War Two
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- Write the missing word. The rise of fun, fast and exciting popular entertainment meant the 1920s becoming known as the ______ Twenties.
- 'Roaring' ✓
- Which political party did all US presidents belong to between 1921 and 1933?
- Conservatives
- Democrats
- Labour
- Republicans ✓
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- Why did US agriculture struggle in the 1920s?
- foreign tariffs ✓
- limited access to technology
- overproduction ✓
- shortage of workers
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- Which statement is most accurate?
- All groups of Americans suffered equally from the Great Depression.
- All Americans suffered, but to different extents, during the Great Depression.
- Most Americans suffered during the Great Depression but not all did. ✓
- Most Americans were not affected by the Great Depression.
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Exit quiz
- Match up each keyword with its correct definition.
- relief⇔food, money or services provided to people in need ✓
- pension⇔money paid to a person once they are elderly and no longer work ✓
- unemployment⇔the state of not having a job ✓
- How many Americans were employed by the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
- 40 000
- 400 000
- 4 000 000 ✓
- 40 000 000
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- Select the correct missing word. The Emergency Banking Act temporarily closed all banks and only allowed those judged to be ______ to re-open.
- reliable ✓
- relief
- Republican
- responsible
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- What was the main focus of the Social Secuirty Act?
- relief ✓
- recovery
- reform
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- The US unemployment rate was 17.2% in 1939. Based on this, which conclusion is most valid?
- The New Deal failed to reduce the problem of unemployment.
- The New Deal created some recovery but this was not complete. ✓
- The New Deal led to most Americans becoming poorer.
- The New Deal led removed the problem of unemployment.
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔World War One
- 2⇔Wall Street Crash
- 3⇔Roosevelt elected president
- 4⇔Most Alphabet Agencies established
- 5⇔Second New Deal, including social security, introduced
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Key learning points
- President Roosevelt promised that his New Deal would deliver 3 R’s: relief, recovery and reform.
- The New Deal involved increased government intervention in the economy.
- Many Americans were lifted out of poverty by the New Deal.
- The New Deal did not end unequal treatment of women nor African Americans in the USA.
Common misconception
The only focus of the New Deal was to create new jobs and reduce unemployment.
Relief and reform were also important aims of the New Deal. Major policies like the Emergency Banking Act and Social Security Act were more concerned with reform and relief, respectively, than job creation.
Keywords
Relief - food, money or services provided to people in need is called relief
Federal government - the federal government is the national government of the USA
Alphabet agencies - the Alphabet Agencies were organisations set up to manage the New Deal
Pension - a pension is money paid to a person once they are elderly and no longer work
Domestic servant - a domestic servant is a person who works in someone else's home, performing duties such as cooking and cleaning
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