2. What did the Bonus Army want the government to do?
They wanted them to give them their money now, instead of in 1945.
3. What was the New Deal?
The laws that congress passed during the hundred days. It affected banking, stock market, industry, agriculture, public works, relief for the poor, and conservation of resources.
4. How did the CCC benefit the unemployed as well as the naiton?
It employed 3million young men to work on projects that benefited the public, plating trees to reforest areas, building levees for flood control, and improving national parks.
5. In what region was the dust bowl centered?
The Great Plains.
6. Summarize the advances made by African Americans and women during the Great Depression.
African Americans had no more jobs, they were taken by white people that needed them. A lot of women went into the work force. Many families survived on the women's income, even though they earned less then men.
7. What was the purpose of the social security act?
It created tac on workers and employers. The money provided monthly pensions for retired people.
8. Describe two laws passes during the Second New Deal that helped workers and unions.
National Labor Relations Act- It guaranteed workers the right to form unions to bargain collectively with employers.
Fair Labor Standards Act- Which banned child labor and set a minimum wage of 40 cents and hour.
9. How did the trend of buying on credit in the 1920s affect banks during the Depression?
If the people failed to pay off their loans, the big banks suffered when they had bought stocks as an investment, and suffered hug loses in the stock market crash.
10. How did new technology help cause the Dust Bowl disaster?
Tractors, and dic plows cleared millions of acres of sod for wheat farming. But they didn't realize that the foots of the grass held the soil in place. So when a sever drought came it dried out the soil.
11. List two ways the federal government changed during Roosevelt's administration.
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