Causes
Signaled the start to the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
President that created the "New Deal"
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt? (FDR)
Crisis that farmers faced because of overgrazing and high winds
What is the Dust Bowl?
Program that helped FDR get the black vote, protected black workers with war time jobs.
What is the Fair Employment Practice Commission? (FEPC)
The unemployment rate during the Great Depression
What is 25%?
A risky business transaction of buying stock in an effort to make a quick or large profit.
What is speculation?
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
FDR's chats to explain what was happening during the Great Depression
What are fireside chats?
These were the 3 goals of the New Deal
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
LONG term effect of the Great Depression
What is people became very thrifty?
The purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest
What is "Buying on Margin"
Created the Federal Reserve System that created the nation's central bank
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Negative term used to describe those leaving Oklahoma and heading to California
What are Okies?
Created as many jobs as possible, from construction to the orchestra
What is the Works Progress Administration? (WPA)
Group of WWI Veterans who marched on Washington and demanded an immediate payment of a bonus that they have been promised
What is the Bonus Army?
Mentality that led to the Stock Market Crash
What is the "Get Rich Quick" mentality?
President who urged companies to "voluntarily" maintain wages and hours
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The political party that wanted to be able to collective bargain
What is the Democratic/Liberal Party?
What is the Wagner Act?
What is Deficit Spending?
The two causes of the Great Depression
What is easy credit and debt?
The first female presidential cabinet member who created Social Security
Who is Francis Perkins?
What FDR did to the Supreme Court that violated the principle of separation of powers
What is Court Packing?
This program was unconstitutional because it gave legislative powers to the executive branch
What is the National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
Highest protective tariff in US history that worsened the Depression
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?