Economics+-+The+Great+Depression

Lessons From the Great Depression (TW)

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 * 1) Of the abandonment of the gold standard in the U.S., banking panics in the U.S. and Europe, a reduction in consumer spending, higher interest rates in the U.S., and imbalances in international trade, all of them exacerbated the effects of the Great Depression EXCEPT (Blank).
 * 2) Generally speaking, the overall effect of fiscal policies in the early 1930s (Blank).
 * 3) Some of the lasting legacies of the Great Depression include (Blank -Name all that apply).
 * 4) The stock market crash that is often equated with the onset of the Great Depression occurred in (Blank).
 * 5) In the years leading up to the Great Depression, all of the following industries in the United States (manufacturing, agriculture, real estate, consumer electronics, and automobiles) experienced growth and prosperity EXCEPT (Blank).
 * 6) Of the Federal Emergency Relief Act, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, the Conservation Corps, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act, all were components of the "New Deal" EXCEPT (Blank).
 * 7) The major reason why Germany experienced hyperinflation in the 1920s was (Blank).
 * 8) The United States did not fully recover from the Great Depression and achieve full employment until (Blank).
 * 9) The architect of the "New Deal" was (Blank).
 * 10) The effects of the Great Depression were felt (Blank).