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Great Depression
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did religion play a part in the 1928 presidential election? | The major issues in the campaign were religion and |
| Why did many investors buy stocks on speculation in the late 1920s? | The late 20s was very similar to the late 90s. Stocks were going up and everybody wanted to jump on the band wagon. Margin was more liberal then |
| Why did many banks collapse in 1929? | Banks make money by charging interest on the loans they give. People go to them and ask them to purchase a house or a car and in return, they will |
| Who's a court official? | Bailiff |
| What comunities formed on unused or public lands by newly homeless people? | Shantytown |
| Who were given to shantytowns? | Hoovervilles |
| Who were an individuals who wander around the country? | Hobos |
| What dried-up lands of the Great Plains that resulted from a severe drought who then moved to California? | Dust Bowl |
| Who was a producer of full-length animated films? | Walt Disney |
| What are daytime radio shows that were sponsored by the makers of laundry soaps? | Soap Operas |
| Who's an artist of the regionalist school, who emphasized traditional American values? | Grant Wood |
| Who's a novelist who wrote about the poverty in the Great Depression? | John Steinback |
| Who's an author who used the stream of consciousness technique? | William Faulkner |
| Why did many farmers in the Great Plains leave their land in the 30s & head west? | Dust Bowl |
| What part did movies & radio shows play in Americans' lives during the Great Depression? | Many European actors, such as Marlene Dietrich & Greta Garbo. Americans also enjoyed cartoons. Walt Disney produced a film. |
| What was the subject of John Steinback's the Grapes of Wrath? | Tom Joad and his family are forced from their farm in the Depressione Era Oklahoma Dust Bowl and set out for California |
| What government-financed building projects? | Public Works |
| What organization set up by Congress to make loans to businesses? | Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
| What money that went directly to people in poverty? | Relief |
| What taken possession of by creditors? | Foreclosed |
| What group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington to demand the payment of bonuses that Congress promised? | Bonus Army |
| Why did President Hoover propose the creation of public works projects? | Hoover's efforts and Roosevelt's New Deal, not only directed |
| What was the purpose of the National Credit Corporation? | The National Credit Corporation of 1932 was to stem a |
| Why did veterans march on Washington DC in 1932? | The soldiers were told to enforce the order to clear the veterans from the buildings. |
| What were the causes of the Depression? | Economic Crises, Losses in WWI, German , |
| What was the decline in worldwide trade as an indirect cause? | |
| What was high tariff as an indirect cause? | Hawley Smoot Tariff |
| What was the decline in worldwide trade as an indirect cause? | |
| What ? | Surplus |
| What inflated prices? | Speculation of stocks |
| What ? | SEC |
| What ? | Stock Market Crash |
| What caused the bank to collapse? | Jeff Madrick justifiably complains that the Obama administration’s financial reform plan “presents no persuasive hypothesis why the credit system collapsed in the fall of 2008" |
| What was the Bank Run? | |
| What was the Bank Holiday? | |
| What were the Federal Reserve Actions brings on depression at that specific time? | |
| Who was the president at the time? | Herbert Hoover |
| What would he & would not to help Hoover's public works? | |
| What was Hooverville? | A shantytown |
| What was Bonus March? | |
| Who was a soldier in WWII who was then fired by President Truman during the Korean War? | Douglas MacArthur |
| What were the hardships of the Depression? | |
| What was widespread unemployment? | 25% Industrial Workers out of work |
| What was the overproduction of farm goods especially wheat? | |
| What overproduction of farm goods especially wheat? | |
| What | Supply/Demand |
| What occured around the Great Plains that made the settlers move to California? | Dust Bowl |
| Who's a photographer who? | Dorthea Lange |
| What human & physical factors of the Dust Bowl? | Human |
| What | "Okies" |
| Who's an American writer who then moved to Sweden? | John Steinbeck |
| What story was written by Tom Joad and his family are forced from their farm in the Depressione Era Oklahoma Dust Bowl and set out for California? | Grapes of Wrath |
| What to Poor soil conservation measures? | |
| Who | Alfred Smith |
| Who was the president at the time? | Roosevelt |
| What | FDR New Deal Programs |
| What | Changing role of government |
| What's Relief | |
| What's Recovery | |
| What's Reform | |
| What's CCC? | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| What's PWA? | Public Works Administration |
| What's WPA? | Works Progress Administration |
| What were the Public works programs? | |
| What were the examples of Program in Austin Area? | |
| What's TVA? | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| What's paying for public works programs? | Deficit spending. |
| What's | Gold Standard |
| What's SSA? | Social Security Act |
| What's FDIC? | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| What's SEC? | |
| What Act? | National Industrial Recovery Act |
| What Act? | National Recovery Act |
| What sticker? | The Blue Eagle sticker |
| What new deal? | Second New Deal |
| What political changes during the NEW deal? | Voting Patterns |
| What growth of labor union? | |
| What FDR pro labor union? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| What's CIO? | Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| What act? | Wagner Act |
| What act? | Fair Labor Standards Act |
| What's NLRB? | National Labor Relations Board |
| What Supreme Court Case? | Schnechter v. US |
| What attempt at court packing? | |
| What impact of court packing if succesful on checks & balances & separation of powers? | |
| Who's a senator who? | Huey Long |
| Who's a doctor who? | Dr. Townshend |
| Who's a father who? | Coughlin |
| What were the causes of the Roosevelt Recession 1937? | production, profits, and wages had regained their 1929 levels. Unemployment remained high, but it was slightly lower than the 25% rate seen in 1933. |
| What pulled the US out of the economic downturn of 1937 & 38? | The recession of 1937-38 is sometimes called “the recession within the Depression.” It came at a time when the recovery from the Great Depression was far from complete and the unemployment rate was still very high. |
| What happened with the banks in 1930? How many banks in 1933? How many businesses have closed by 1933? | Just days before Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration as President, the United States was in the middle of a banking panic. On March 3, 1933, Washington Governor Clarence Martin closed all Washington State banks and declared a three-day “bank holiday,” |
| What kitchen serves free food to people who are homeless & destitute? | Soup Kitchen |
| What town is a deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings. | Shantytown |
| What's an example of a shantytown? | Hooverville |
| Which states lost population during the Dust Bowl in the 30s? | Western Kansas, Oklahoma, Northern Texas, Eastern Colorado, Northeastern Nebraska & the Dakotas |
| Why did most of the shown on the map lead to cities from the Dust Bowl? | To escape the Dust Bowl |
| Why did poor people in the Depression go to the movies & what type of movies do they see? | Walt Disney. |
| What was Steinbeck's book THE GRAPES OF WRATH? | Forces from his farm in the Depressione Era Oklahoma Dust Bowl and set out for California |
| Why did the federal government decide to dam the Colorado River? | To light up Las Vegas. |
| Why did engineers choose the Black Canyon site? | the high rock walls made it an ideal location to build a dam. Also, when the water was high, the canyon was navigable to steamboat traffic, which was another positive influence. |
| What did Hoover do with public works? Did he help enough? | While not believing in charity by the government, Hoover did try and help the |
| What did Hoover do to help the banks & why? | The stock market crash of October 24, 1929 (called Black Thursday) marked the beginning of the worst depression in American history, from which the country didn't really begin to rebound until the start of World War II. |
| What bill finally, in 1932, gave money to states to help people? Why didn't this work to really help? | The Hoover Deal of 1932 where Pres. Hoover came to the legislative session of 1932 in an atmosphere of crisis, ready for drastic measures. In his annual message to Congress, on December 8, 1931. |
| What were the bonus marchers who demand & describe how Hoover reacted to the Bonus Army? | was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. |
| How effect did press coverage of this event have on the public? | |
| What were the origins of the New Deal? | It really won by the working class. The capitalist media |
| What did Roosevelt accomplish the first night of his presidency with the Emergency Banking Relief Act? | |
| How is the TVA a great example of a Recovery & Reform type of program? | |
| What did the SEC & the Glass-Steagall Act which created the FDIC do? | |
| How did the AAA work to relieve farming problrms during the Depression? | |
| What do the NIRA & NRA do? | NIRA: National Industrial Recovery Act authorizes the President of the United States to regulate industry and permit cartels. NRA: National Recovery Administration eliminates "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor and government together |
| What was the difference in the 3 work programs the CCC, PWA & WPA & how did they help relieve unemployment & lack of hope in the Depression? | |
| What were the positions of Huey Long & Father Coughlin? | As William Butler Yeats noted in his famous poem "The Second Coming," written in 1921, the disintegration of the world order. |
| How did the 2nd New Deal differ from Roosevelt's 1st? | Events from 1934-38 |
| What's the Supreme Court involvement in New Deal legislation in their ruling of the Scheter "sick chicken" case? | Invalidated regulations of the poultry industry according to the nondelegation doctrine and as an invalid use of Congress's power under the commerce clause. |
| How did the New Deal contribute to the growth of industrial unions? | It produced a political realignment, making the Democratic Party the majority (as well as the party that held the White House for seven out of nine Presidential terms from 1933 to 1969), with its base in liberal ideas, the white South, |
| How are the FDIC, SEC & the Social Security legislation legacies of the New Deal? | |
| How did President Roosevelt fail the court-packing plan? | President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposed legislation failed when the Senate voted 70-20 to return the bill to the Judiciary Committee with explicit instructions. |
| What created the Roosevelt recession in 1937? | production, profits, and wages had regained their 1929 levels. Unemployment remained high, but it was slightly lower than the 25% rate seen in 1933. |
| What ultimately brought the country out of the Depression starting in 1938? | |
| What's the government's new role in America after the Depression? | Americans in both rural and urban areas of the nation did support the efforts of the New Deal. |
| What are President Franklin Roosevelt's programs for ending the Depression? | New Deal |
| What's a paralyzing disease? | Polio |
| What's a situation in which one ounce of golf equaled a set# of dollars? | Gold Standard |
| What's the closing of banks before bank runs could put them out of business? | Bank Holiday |
| What policies made Pres. Franklin Roosevelt a New York governor? | His term as governor provided him with a high-visibility position in which to prove himself as well as provide a major base from which to launch a bid for the presidency. |
| Why did many states declare bank holidays in 1933? | There have been many volumes written as to why the market crashed in '29 and why the banking crisis came to a head in early 1933. |
| What time between March 9 & Jun 16, 1933, when Congress passed 15 laws to deal with the nation's economy? | Hundred Days |
| What radio talks that President Roosevelt held with the American people to let them know what he hoped to accomplish? | |
| What government agency sets up to regulate the stock market & prevent fraud? | |
| What provided government insurance for bank deposits up to a certain amount? | |
| What agency administered Roosevelt's farm program? | Farm Security Administration |
| What relief program's for the New Deal? | |
| What did the advisers who blamed business leaders for causing the Depression want the government to do? | |
| How did President Roosevelt communicate with the American people about what he was trying to accomplish? | |
| What were the effects of the Agricultural Adjustment Act? | |
| What programs did Congress set up to help Americans pay their debts? | |
| How did President Roosevelt communicate with the American people about what he was trying to accomplish? | |
| What borrowed money to pay for programs? | Deficit Spending |
| What American political organization formed in 1934 by conservative Democrats to oppose the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was active for just two years. Following the landslide re-election of Roosevelt in 1936? | American Liberty League |
| What was then renamed in 1939 as the (Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency? | Works Progress Administration |
| What's an independent agency of the United States government charged with conducting elections for labor union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices? | National Labor Relations Board |
| What's a well-established and widely used means to end disputes. It is one of several kinds of Alternative Dispute Resolution, which provide parties to a controversy with a choice other than litigation? | Binding Abitration |
| What's s a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at a factory or other centralized location, take possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations? | Sit-Down Strike |
| What's now codified as 42 U.S.C. ch.7, was a legislative act which created the Social Security system in the United States? | Social Security Act |
| Why did the left oppose President Roosevelt's policies? | |
| Why did the Supreme Court strike down the National Industrial Recovery Act? | United States Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA). The NIRA was part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. |
| What kind of union was the Committee for Industrial Organization? | The Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO |
| What was the goal of the Social Security Act? | |
| Who was the Secretary of Labor under President Roosevelt & the 1st woman appointed to cabinet post? | Frances Perkins |
| What are Roosevelt's plan to add justices to the Supreme Court? | Court-Packing |
| Who's the secretary of the Treasury under President Roosevelt? | Henry Morgenthau |
| Who's the influtential British economist? | John Maynard Keynes |
| What government whose role includes mediating between competing groups? | Broker State |
| What are safeguards & relief programs that protected Americans against economic disasters? | Safety Net |
| What did supporters of Keynesianism believe President Roosevelt should do to stop the recession in 1937? | Keynesian economy |
| How did the congressional elections of 1938 affect New Deal legislation? | |
| How did the Supreme Court rulings affect the federal government? | |
| Who was the Nazi leader of Germany? | Adolf Hitler |
| Who was the Fascist dictator of Italy? | Benito Mussolini |
| Who was the Emperor of Japan? | Emperor Hirohito |
| Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Party in Russia? | Vladimir Lenin |
| Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR]? | Joseph Stalin |
| What provice in Northern China? | Manchuria |
| What act made it illegal for American to sell arms to any country at war? | Neutrality Act of 1935 |
| What idea traded between nations & created prosperity & helped to prevent war? | Internationalism |
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