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APUSH chap24
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| stock prices skyrocketed, bought on margin | bull market |
| produced more than could be bought by the consumers | overproduction |
| WWI veterans were supposed to get a bonus in 1945 but protested to get their money early. Douglas MacArthur forcibly removed remaining veterans by guns and bayonets | Bonus Army |
| FDR granted the banks a "holiday" in order to get the economy and the money under control | Bank holiday |
| talks that FDR would have with the citizens via radio | fireside chats |
| young men could help protect and conserve the nation's natural resources | CCC |
| half was direct relief and the rest was spent based on money spent on federal aide | FERA |
| helped to get immediate relief to the nations farmers. helped establish prices | AAA |
| built hydroelectric power complex and munition plants on the Tennessee river. Brought electricity for the first time to many places, people thought this was too much like socialism | TVA |
| tried to stimulate production and competition in business | NRA |
| money set aside for construction of roads, public buildings, and other projects | PWA |
| too close to communism | New Deal |
| employed jobless artists, musicians, actors, and writers | WPA |
| old-age pension and unemployment insurance | Social Security Act |
| horrible dust storms, massive drought, native grass was destroyed for planting wheat and there was nothing to prevent erosion, AAA paid farmers to only produce what they could sell | Dust Bowl |
| fled to California when they were pushed off their cotton farms | Okies |
| Grapes of Wrath | John Steinback |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| Found National Recovery Administration unconstitutional | Schecter v. US |