Vocabulary
What is it called when people who need jobs cannot find them?
unemplyment
What invention did Roosevelt use to communicate with Americans all over the country?
radio
Which program employed young men for building projects?
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
What did Roosevelt call his series of new government programs?
New Deal
Where did the poor live?
shantytowns
Who won the election of 1932?
Roosevelt
Who was the Social Security Act meant to help?
older people
What did the Farm Bill pay farmers to do?
plant less crops
What is it when many people withdraw their money at once?
bank run
What project did Herbert Hoover manage during World War I?
Providing food to people in Belgium
Which New Deal program required businesses to sell their goods at fixed prices?
National Recovery Administration
Why did Roosevelt try to add more justices to the Supreme Court?
To make sure his New Deal was kept
What is the name of a tax on goods shipped into the country?
tariff
What did Roosevelt believe caused the Great Depression?
Americans produced too much
Who forced some of Roosevelt's programs to shut down?
Supreme Court
Why did many countries not pay their debts to the United States?
Their economies were struggling
How did people speculate on the stock market?
They sold stock at a higher price.
Why did Hoover raise taxes during the Great Depression?
To keep the government out of debt
Whom did Roosevelt believe was trying to shut down the New Deal?
businesses
What did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation do?
Helped people trust banks with their money