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Great Depression
Mrs. Brown's Great Depression
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| FDR wanted to put new judges in the Supreme Court to pass his legislation - unconstitutional because of Checks and Balances and Seperation of powers | Court Packing Scheme |
| WWI veterans protested in Washington demanding the bonus they were promised. | Bonus Army |
| President can't have powers not written in the Constitution | Schechter v. US |
| Opposed FDR's New Deal because they thought he was trying to be a dictator | Liberty League |
| Opposed FDR's New Deal - Said old people should get more money | Dr. Francis Townsend |
| Opposed FDR's New Deal - Ran for president saying he was going to tax rich and give each family $5000. | Huey Long |
| Opposed FDR's New Deal - Priest who criticized FDR on the radio | Father Coughlin |
| Liberty League, Dr. Francis Townsend, Huey Long, and Father Coughlin | Opposed FDR's New Deal |
| Provided an unemployment insurance to people that lost jobs and gave old age people money so they could retire | Social Security Act |
| Created jobs building Dams on the Tennessee River and it produced electricity | Tennessee Valley Authority - TVA |
| Government insures deposits so if the bank fails, people don't loose all their money | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - FDIC |
| Roosevelt felt that the government should be responsible for the economy. THIS PERMANENTLY INCREASED THE SIZE AND POWER OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT | The New Deal |
| this agency gave money to those in need | Federal Emergency Relief Administration - FERA |
| Gave young men jobs, housing, and meals so that they could send their paychecks to their families | Civilian Conservation Corps - CCC |
| Created jobs building roads, schools, etc | Public Works Administration - PWA |
| Created jobs for artists, writers, and musicians | Works Progress Administration - WPA |
| All banks were closed until they were sound enough to open | Bank Holiday |
| Relief, Recovery, and Reform | The 3 R's |
| A temporary fix to the Great Depression | Relief |
| A More permanent fix to the Great Depression | Recovery |
| This was to make sure the Great Depression never happened again | Reform |
| 1st female to serve on the President's Cabinet | Francis Perkins |
| 1st lady who said that wives had to keep their families going during the Great Depression and later advocated for women's rights | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| FDR would speak directly to the American public on the radio | Fireside Chats |
| President from 1933-1945, longest serving president ever. He gave Americans the New Deal | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| President from 1928 - 1932, did very little to help with the Great Depression | Herbert Hoover |
| Named after the president - People lived in shacks because they had no money | Hoovervilles |
| Construction project to make jobs also made electricity under Hoover | Hoover Dam |
| Gave money to businesses hoping they would create jobs and money would trickle down to the people. | Trickle Down Theory |
| Government sent half a million Mexicans back to Mexico because there were no jobs | Mexican Repatriation Act |
| Over farming, Drought, and high winds blew away top soil and made farming the Great Plains impossible | Dust Bowl |
| People from Oklahoma who moved to California because of the Dust Bowl | Okies |
| Wrote the "Grapes of Wrath" about Okies moving to find jobs | John Steinbeck |
| Took pictures of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl | Dorothea Lange |
| Overproduction, Speculation, Buying on Margin, Bank Failure, Tariffs on International Trade, Stock Market Crash | Causes of the Great Depression |
| Factories made too many items - couldn't sell them all | Overproduction |
| "get rich quick" scheme, buy low, sell high - Stock Market and Real Estate | Speculation |
| Buying stocks, but only paying 10% down (90% still owed) hoping the stocks would be worth more than owed | Buying on Margin |
| Banks were not regulated and were playing the Stock Market. Many shut down after Stock Market crash. | Bank Failure |
| October 29, 1929 | Black Tuesday, Start of the Great Depression |
| US put high tariffs on outside goods, other countries did the same to US goods | Tariffs on International Trade |
| When many people rush to the bank to take out their money | Bank Runs |
| Hoover approved this to provide loans to banks, insurance companies, railroads, and state governments hoping it would "trickle down" | Reconstruction Finance Corp |
| During this time FDR began many of his efforts to help with the Great Depression. | 1st Hundred Days |
| the group of academic advisers that FDR gathered to assist him during the 1932 presidential campaign | Brain Trust |
| Book about the Okies journey to California to find work | Grapes of Wrath |
| the action taken to stimulate an economy, through government spending | Priming the Pump |
| stimulated industrial production and improved competition by drafting corporate codes of conduct - ruled unconstitutional | National Recovery Administration - NRA |
| Assisted farmers, paid them not to plant crops hoping to get prices to rise - ruled unconstitutional | Agricultural Adjustment Act - AAA |
| Federal troops used tear gas and fire to destroy the makeshift camp of the Bonus Army. | Battle of Anacostia Flats |
| Nickname given to FDR's attempts to fix the Great Depression | "Alphabet Soup" |
| Name given to homeless people | Hobos |
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