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history test
the great depression
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Americans involvement in WW2 in which the US suffered from the worst economic crisis in history | Great Depression |
| failure of the stock market which was the event that began the great depression | Great Crash |
| day the stock market failed | Black Tuesday |
| responsibility of Americans to take care of themselves, not the government responsibility | rugged individualism |
| presedent of US when great depression begins | Herbert Hoover |
| giving money, food, jobs directly to people in need | direct relief |
| conditions of the great plains caused by drought | Dust Bowl |
| Raises taxes to highest point ever | Hawley-smoot act |
| loaned money to banks and buisnesses to keep them afloat | RFC (reconstruction finance corporation) |
| federal law which created an agency whose purpose was to prevent foreclosures on homes | home loan bank act |
| shanty towns occupied by people who lost their homes | hoovervilles |
| goes across Colorado river, public works project | Boulder Dam |
| symbol of hope for future, tallest freestanding structure | Empire State Building |
| veterans who were promised money so went to capital asking for early payment | Bonus Army |
| gloomy song written for president, sadly epitimised his term in the white house | Brother Can You Spare a Dime? |
| moves inoguration date from march 4th to january 20 | 20th amendment |
| written for democratic convention | Happy Days Are Here Again |
| what roosevelt said was the only thing American's had to fear | fear |
| closed all banks to be examined by government | bank holiday |
| weekly radio adresses that prez used to assure people conditions would improve | fireside chats |
| begining of presidency during which huge amounts of legislation was passed in an effort to fight great depression | hundred days |
| professors who guided the president, informal advisors | braintrust |
| any agency/law created to fight the great depression | new deal |
| regarding both parties, type of cabinet Roosevlet hat | bi-partisan |
| secretary of agriculture | Henry Wallace |
| secretary of interior (natural resources) | Harold Ickes |
| served in senate, secretary of state | Cordell hull |
| part of labor movement, secretary of labor, 1st woman on board | Frances Perkins |
| 1st lady, tireless supporter of minorities | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| repealed prohibition | 21st amendment |
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