Causes
What Tariff caused a trade war in 1930 leading to a complete loss of shipping?
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
What group of workers were impacted the most by the depression?
Farmers
What were slums nicknamed during the great depression?
Hoovervilles
How was Eleanor Roosevelt related to Theodore Roosevelt?
Neice
What did the Social Securit act do?
Implemented a pension system for retirees and an unemployment system
What was the name of the drought that hit the Mississippi Valley in the 1930s and destroyed towns with dust storms?
The Dustbowl
Where did people trying to escape the dustbowl typically migrate to?
The coasts
When did Hoover's presidency end?
1933
How many terms did FDR serve?
four
Which British economist criticized FDR for not deficit spending, which he thought was necessary to fight an economic depression?
John Maynard Keynes
Which County owed the U.S. the most after World War 1 but defaulted?
Germany
What was the army of thousands of veterans that marched on D.C. in 1932?
The Bonus Army
In what year did Hoover run for president?
1928
What injury plagued FDR in his presidency?
Paralysis from the waist down
Which act established a minimum wage and a 44-hour work limit per week?
The fair labor standards act
What is the name of buying stock but only paying for a small percentage up front?
Buying on margin
What was repatriation?
The push for immigrant families to go back to their homeland.
What was the name for the type of economics that Hoover believed would fix the depression?
Trickle-down economics
How did FDR try to get as many of his New Deal laws passed when the Supreme court denied some?
His court-packing scheme
Which act gave workers the legal right to form unions and collectively bargain?
The Wagner, or National Labor Relations act
What Scandal involving the shipment of oil was president Warren G. Harding involved in, that his Secretary of the interior caused?
(The oil reserves were in T____dome, Wyoming)
The Teapot Dome scandal
How much did the average annual family income drop during the depression?
40%
What was Hoover's original plan for the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
To help farmers fight foreign import
What was FDR's political party and his three R's?
Democratic, Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Why were some of FDR's acts criticized for reducing the free market, including the TVA?
For being too Socialist