People
People and Dates
Acts, Administrations, etc.
Terms
The Great Depression
100
The "Great Humanitarian"; President of the United States
What is Herbert Hoover?
100
Organized the CIO (Committe [later changed to Congress] of Industrial Organizations)
What is John L. Lewis?
100
Granted broad banking powers to the President
What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act?
100
the government's spending more money than they bring in
What is a deficit?
100
one of the reasons that the Great Depression started; buying things with money that you don't have
What is credit?
200
Wrote a book titled "The Grapes of Wrath"
What is John Steinback?
200
Communist labor organizer; became head of the Communist Party, U.S.A.
What is Gus Hall?
200
Insured bank accounts for up to $5,000 per account
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
200
this amendment repelled the 18th amendment; legalized the sale of liquor
What is the 21st amendment?
200
buying like this was how you "paid" for stocks if you didn't use your own money
What is buying on margin?
300
Proposed the New Deal; 32nd President
What is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
300
The first female aviator to pilot a plane across the Atlantic
What is Amelia Earhart?
300
Because of this, the government paid farmers to not produce and sell as many goods
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
300
social planners that helped FDR with the New Deal; they were socialist college professors
What is the "brain trust"?
300
the unsold goods that companies have
What is inventory?
400
FDR's wife and a US delegate to the UN
What is Eleanor Roosevelt?
400
Black Tuesday; the stock market crash; the first day of the Great Depression
What is October 29, 1929?
400
The government used this to attempt to control wages and prices, as well as to limit business competition
What is the National Recovery Administration?
400
the sinking of this German airship was considered the most dramatic event of the decade (1930s)
What is the "Hindenburg"?
400
(1) the desire of a few people to get rich quick (2) to many things bought on credit (3) government interference in private business
What are three reasons for the severity of the Great Depression?
500
Proposed the idea that the government can live beyond its means
What is John Maynard Keynes?
500
The Great Depression
What is 1929-1939?
500
a form of welfare where work was necessary before you received the government money; this still led to much corruption
What is the Works Progress Administration?
500
this happens when people lose trust in bank and hurry to get their money out
What is a bank run?
500
what provided for the needs of many during the Great Depression
What are families, churches, and private charities?
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