FDR Biography
Born into prosperity with a formative education.
What is FDR's upbringing?
Squatter settlements that the impoverished lived in.
What are Hoovervilles?
Series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations created to help citizens of America.
What is the New Deal?
Age of dramatic social and political change.
What were the 1920's?
21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment.
What is the repeal of prohibition?
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Who is FDR's wife (and distant cousin)?
Overproduction, Consumer Overspending, "Get Rich Quick" Attitude, Disparity of Wealth, Banking Panic, Farmers overfarmed land & did not rotate crops.
What are the causes of the Great Depression?
Term coined to represent the many acronyms of the programs of the New Deal.
What is Alphabet Soup?
Presidents during the 1920's practiced this hands off style of government.
What is Laissez Faire?
Evening radio addresses given by FDR to connect to the public through media.
What were Fireside Chats?
Position in World War II.
What is Commander in Chief?
Period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of America.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Gave young men stable jobs and provided infrastructure.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
Who installed the first assembly line for the mass production of the automobile.
Who is Henry Ford?
Dramatic end to an era of unprecedented prosperity.
What is the Great Depression?
Disease contracted by FDR at age 39.
What is Polio?
Famous photo of struggling mother with her two children during the Great Depression
What is the "Migrant Mother"?
Federal government would insure banks that showed they were doing the right thing.
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
Young women who wore skirts, bobbed their hair, smoked, listened to jazz, and lived in the moment.
What are flappers?
Law proposed by FDR to give the President more power by appointing an extra court justice for every justice over the age of 70.5.
What was Court Packing?
His activist and personal charm for government intervention in the economy to provide relief, recovery, and reform.
What is FDR's election strategy?
People were without jobs, money, and food. Farmers in the midwest lost everything so they packed up headed west.
What is life during the Great Depression?
When FDR jump started his New Deal program.
What is the first 100 days?
African American writers and artists gained control over the representation of black culture and experience. Jazz was born out of the black experience in America.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Who were the critics of FDR?