Hoover and the Crash
Roosevelt and the New Deal
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Legacy of the New Deal
Vocab
100
The stock market crashed on this date
What is October 29, 1929?
100
The three major goals of the New Deal.
What is Relief, recovery, and reform?
100
Who is FDR's wife, and the most famous working woman in the country?
Who is E;anor Roosevelt?
100
first minimum wage in 1935
What is 25 cents per hour
100
situation in which supply of goods exceeds demand
What is overproduction
200
The nickname for the day the stock market crashed?
What is black tuesday?
200
FDIC protected bank deposits up to this amount
What is $2500?
200
disease that paralyzed Roosevelt
What is polio?
200
this act guaranteed workers' rights to organize into unios
What is the wagner act?
200
retirement payments
What are pensions?
300
the unemployment rate went as high as _____% during the great depression.
What is 25%?
300
The first thing that FDR did after he was elected.
What is a 4 day bank holiday?
300
nickname for giant dust storms in the midwest
What are black blizzards?
300
any overtime would be this type of pay
What is time and a half
300
a company cannot pay debts
What is bankruptcy?
400
Hoover believe these 3 groups should take the lead to combat the great depression.
Who are business leaders, charities, and local governments.
400
The amount of bill's FDR put into action in his first term.
What is 15?
400
Franklin Roosevelt's 2 jobs before becoming POTUS
Asst Secretary of Navy, Governor of New York
400
3 parts of the Social Security Act
What is old age insurance, ADC, and aid to the disabled?
400
unions (workers) negotiate wages and benefits for all of its members
What is collective bargaining?
500
What was the bonus army?
What is a group of protesters who were promised 1000$ WW1 bonus payments. They gathered in Washington where they were fired at by the government!
500
Give the 3 goals of the New Deal and give one program aim to achieve that goal.
Answers vary
500
Explain FDR's court packing plan and if it was successful
add 6 new judges to help his new deal yada yada yada
500
What is the biggest argument made in favor of the New Deal, against the New Deal?
for, restored faith in government against, did not end the great depression
500
government spends more money than it takes in
What is deficit spending?
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