Causes
Hoover
Alphabet Agencies
FDR
Key Terms
100
The event that symbolized the beginning of the Great Depression
What is the stock market crash (Black Tuesday)
100
Hoover's political party
What is the Republicans?
100
extends government support to elderly citizens
What is Social Security?
100
The first problem FDR gave his attention to
What is the bank failures?
100
"on margin"
What is speculation on the stock market with borrowed funds?
200
Caused international trade to dry up
What is the effect of the highest tariff in US history (Hawley-Smoot Tariff)?
200
One word description of Republican philosophy during the 1920s
What is Laissez Faire (I'll accept Supply Side Economics)
200
FDR supported the creation of this in order to restore public confidence in the banking system
What is FDIC?
200
The group that believed that FDR was too socialist
What is the Liberty League?
200
The Grapes of Wrath
What is John Steinbeck's novel about the Dust Bowl?
300
Overproduction and weather caused this in the Great Plains
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
The final straw for public confidence in Hoover
What is the handling of the Bonus Army?
300
Provided electricity to improve economic conditions in a poor rural region
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
300
The economist's theory that the New Deal embraced
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
400
The demographic of people who suffered with low prices and debt throughout the 1920s
Who are the farmers?
400
Hoover's attempt to stop foreclosures
What is the Federal Home Loan Bank Act?
400
This helped organized labor gain strength
What is the Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)?
400
This idea was perceived by many as a violation of the checks and balances
What is FDR's court packing scheme?
400
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
What gave young men manual labor jobs?
500
Define disillusionment
What is a loss of belief in government's (or the individual's) ability to foster positive change?
500
The name of Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury
Who is Mellon?
500
Court case which declared the NRA unconstitutional
What is Schecther Poultry v. United States?
500
The result of FDR winning four terms
What is the 22nd Amendment?
500
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Attempted to decrease farm production to cause inflation
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