Vocab
Vocab 2
Events
Programs (Year, Abb.)
Miscellaneous
100
When someone is unable to pay their debts.
What is bankrupt?
100
Place where the hungry could get a free meal.
What is a soup kitchen?
100
Where dust storms blew through the Midwest carrying away the dried out topsoil. It also caused many people to move west to look for work.
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
Provided jobs for young men to plant trees, build bridges and parks, and set up flood-control projects. (1933, CCC)
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
100
Disease that FDR had that is caused by a virus.
What is polio?
200
When the government spends more money than it is taking in.
What is deficit spending?
200
The total sum of money the government owes.
What is national debt?
200
Event in which FDR closed every bank in the country for 4 days.
What is a bank holiday?
200
Enforced codes that regulated wages, prices, and working condition. (1933, NRA)
What is the National Recovery Administration?
200
Unofficial black advisers the FDR invited to the White House.
What is the Black Cabinet?
300
A sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire.
What is pension?
300
When FDR would give a speech on the radio from a chair near a fireplace in the White House.
What are fireside chats?
300
Event in which Congress passed a record 15 major new laws. It was the first 3 months of FDR's Presidency.
What is the Hundred Days?
300
Employed men and women to build hospitals, schools, parks, and airports; employed artists, writers, and musicians. (1935, WPA)
What is the Works Progress Administration?
300
The 3 Rs that FDR wanted to end the Great Depression.
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
400
Rights due to all citizens.
What are civil rights?
400
Process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management.
What is collective bargaining?
400
Broadcast by Orson Welles that caused great worry among listeners who tuned in late.
What is War of the Worlds?
400
Set up a system of pensions for the elderly, the unemployed, dependent children, and people with disabilities. (1935, SSA)
What is the Social Security Act?
400
Program that set out to remake the Tennessee River Valley.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
People who move from one region to another in search of work.
What are migrant workers?
500
When employees shut down all the machines and refused to leave the factory.
What is a sit-down strike?
500
This protected American workers from unfair management practices, such as firing a worker for joining a union.
What is the Wagner Act?
500
Paid farmers not to grow certain crops. (AAA, 1933)
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
500
Laws that gave Native American nations greater control over their own affairs.
What is the Indian New Deal?
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