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Great Depression
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This was a plan that involved several programs that were started in order to help the people. | The New Deal |
| What is it called when you pay for a margin of an asset and borrow the balance from a broker? | Buying on margin |
| The most disastrous stock market crash took place on October 29, 1929 and was known as what? | Black Tuesday |
| The means of producing more than necessary and wasting funds | Overproduction |
| The 31st President of the U.S. and came into office during the great depression. | Herbert Hoover |
| The 32nd President of the U.S. and helped end the great depression with the new deal. | FDR |
| This was the wife of FDR and she was an activists for the civil rights movement and was an advocate for the United Nations. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| This construction project helped generate employment and electricity in Tennessee. | Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
| This corporation created jobs for young men that were unemployed. | Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
| This administration was created to generate jobs to the public, before it was turned over to the Federal Works Agency. | Works progress administration (WPA) |
| This was a large scale public works construction agency created in response to the great depression. | Public Works Administration (PWA) |
| This was created to provide general welfare to the people. | Social Security |
| This is the payment of cash or food to the poor. | Direct relief |
| President Roosevelt talked directly to the citizens and it was known as this. | Fireside chats |
| This caused severe drought and damaged that agriculture of the U.S. | dust bowl |
| This law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. | Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) |
| This act provided federal loans to private bankers. | Banking Act |
| This act repealed prohibition. | Beer-wine revenue act |
| This act gave money to the states to provide relief to the poor. | Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) |
| This act created structure for business to make certain industries more profitable. | National industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) |
| This act prevented workers to be interfered with during union involvements. | Wagner act |
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