The Great Depression
What event in 1929 was one cause of the Great Depression?
1929 Stock Market Crash
What does AAA stand for?
Agricultural Adjustment Act
What does FDR stand for?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Who won the election of 1932?
FDR
Shanty towns set up as a response to homelessness during the Great Depression
What does TVA stand for?
Tennessee Valley Authority
What type of background did FDR have?
Wealthy and well-educated
What were FDR's main goals of the New Deal?
Relief, recovery, reform
How many Americans were unemployed at the peak of the Great Depression?
13 million
What did employees of the Civil Conservation Corps do?
Reforestation, road construction, soil conservation, and flood control
Who was FDR's wife?
Eleanor Roosevelt
What is court packing?
Adding justices to a court to shift its ideological balance
How would Coolidge have responded to the Great Depression?
By not involving the government
What did the Works Progress Administration do?
Employed 8 million people on public works projects
What were the fireside chats?
A series of evening radio broadcasts from FDR to the American people to explain government actions.
Which groups were part of the Democratic coalition in 1936?
Southerners, ethnic northerners, western farmers, African Americans
How did Hoover respond to the Great Depression?
Selective government involvement; not providing relief to individuals directly
What did the Social Security Act do?
Established unemployment compensation and old age insurance
How was FDR different than Coolidge and Hoover?
FDR was a Democrat, he did not feel limited by restraints on federal/executive power, his programs provided relief directly to individuals, his presidency was longer, etc.
Who was Huey Long?
A governor of LA and later senator from LA who criticized FDR's New Deal from the left.