Causes of Great Depression
This took place in 1929 and is considered the start of the Great Depression since many investors lost all of their money as a result.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
What was the name of his plan he created to help improve the economy
What is the "New Deal"
What was the name of the trial that had to do with the teaching of evolution in high schools
What is the scopes trial
Relief/Recovery: agency which helped stop the flooding in the Tennessee Valley. ___ ____ A
What is the TVA
Who created the first breadlines and soup kitchens in Chicago?
Who is Al Capone
This President thought that by doing nothing the economy would get better and people should be "rugged individuals" and help themselves.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
What were the 3 "R"s of the New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, & Reform.
Describe a flapper
What is A woman who lived in the city who swore, drank and smoked in public
Recovery: Agency paid farmers NOT to grow their crops in order to raise the price of crops. This doubled the prices of Crops before being declared unconstitutional in 1936. ___ ____ A
What is AAA
What would you call a group of cardboard houses or shantys set up in a public park or street alley?
What is a Hooverville/shantytown
What happened to the United States banks after the stock market crash?
Many banks ran out of money and worst forced to close.
What is the FDIC?
Describe the great migration and list 2 reasons why you would want to leave
What is the mass migration to the north
Reasons to leave - better jobs, less rasicism, better schools, new identity
Reform: Agency provided (and still provides today) money for people after they have retired.
What is Social Security
Name 1 way Herbert Hoover was different from FDR
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When a company makes more products (TVs, Cars, Radios, etc) than people are willing to buy.
What is overproduction?
What form of communication did FDR use very well? People said they felt like he was speaking directly to them.
Radio Broadcasts (Fireside Chats)
This neighborhood was the center of the flourishing African American arts and culture of the 1920s
What is Harlem
Relief: Agency build public airports, sewers, roads, schools, and other buildings. It spent over 10.5 Billion dollars and employed 3.8 Million men. W ____ ____.
What is the WPA
What was the name of the drought that caused many farmers in the great plains to have terrible harvests in the 1930's?
What is the dust bowl
What is it called when you borrow money in order to buy more stock?
What is "buying on margin"
FDR's new deal program did what to the size and scope of the government?
EXPANSION - it gave the government much more power and involvement in the daily lives of Americans.
This president of the 1920s believed the United States should "return to normalcy".
Who is President Harding
Relief: This agency hired men ages 18 - 26 learned forestry skills t help improve our national forest and national parks during the 1930's. ___ ____ C.
What is the CCC
Businesses made a 65 percent leap in gains during the 1920s, but workers salaries only increased by what percentage?
8 to 9 percent