The rise in consumerism and the ability to do this, contributed to amazing debt during the Depression.
What is buying on credit?
100
Nickname for October 29, 1929 (the day of the biggest losses on the stock market in history)
What is Black Tuesday?
100
This was the first thing Roosevelt set out to do to fight the Depression.
What is restore confidence in the banks?
100
The first six months of FDR's presidency were called
What is The First Hundred Days?
100
The years that the Great Depression occurred.
What is 1929-1940?
200
These were a cause of the Great Depression and they restricted foreign demand for American goods.
What are high tariffs?
200
Franklin Roosevelt's policies for ending the Great Depression became known as this.
What is the New Deal?
200
Term used to characterize the second stage of policies passed by FDR to fight the Great Depression.
What is the Second New Deal?
200
One of the first things FDR did during the First Hundred Days.
What is close the banks?
200
President of the United States who was quoted saying he had no fear for the future, only hope, right before the stock market crashed.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
These reduced consumer buying power and were a cause of the Great Depression.
What are lower wages?
300
A group of 10,000 disgruntled WW1 veterans who marched on Washington to cash in on army bonuses promised to them by Congress.
What is "Bonus Army"?
300
This Act in the New Deal recognized the rights of employees to join labor unions and gave workers the right to collective bargaining.
What is the Wagner Act?
300
FDR's eyes and ears around the nation.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
FDR said it was time for the people and the nation to do this.
What is not cower from their current situation?
400
These two causes of the Great Depression led to employee layoffs.
What is overproduction and low demand?
400
Makeshift shantytowns of tents and sheet metal built on public land for homeless people during the depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
400
Economic theory that suggests the way that a government should deal with economic recession is to increase government deficit spending and to lower taxes.
What is Keynesian economic theory?
400
FDR had this disease that affected his legs.
What is polio?
400
FDR's attempt to add justices to the Supreme Court.
What is court packing?
500
The Stock Market crashed in October of 1929 and this comedian who had purchased stocks was caught in the middle of it.
Who is Groucho Marx?
500
A term used to describe people who migrated from places like Oklahoma (because of the Dust Bowl) to states like California.
What is an "Okie"?
500
A federal agency developed during the Great Depression that provided benefits specifically to the South.
What is Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
500
FDR introduced this act that tried to help farmers by paying them not to grow crops.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
500
A New Deal federal program that provided young men with relief jobs on environmental conservation projects, reforestation, and flood control.