What's the Dealio?
This was created to provide depositors with insurance, and the problem it was designed to correct.
FDIC; bank closures
This act forced farmers to plow under crops and kill livestock and the problem it was designed to fix.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the problem of low prices?
DAILY DOUBLE!
First the name of the paranoia against radical and immigrants and the name of the two immigrant men executed in a famous trial that embodied those fears.
Two developments after WW1 that led to farmers having a great deal of trouble during the GD.
Lowering of demand/prices and default on loans for expansion of land/crops.
The three Rs and their purposes used to understand the categories behind FDR's programs.
What are Relief (jobs/aid), Recovery (businesses/economy), and Reform (fixing problems that led to GD)?
This act was created to provide financial support to the elderly and disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
The highest level of national unemployment reached in 1932.
What is 25%?
The name of the trial that pitted William J. Bryan against Clarence Darrow, and fundamentalism vs. Modernism.
What is the Scopes trial?
The Red Scare was embodied by these, nicknamed after the current anti-communist Attorney General.
What are the Palmer Raids?
The term given to putting down a small amount of cash to buy shares in a stock and borrowing the rest, and one effect of this practice.
What is "buying on margin" and devaluation of stocks (or bank closures/panics)?
This was established to provide farmers with electricity and water regulation.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
DAILY DOUBLE!
The name given to the group violently removed from the capital in 1932, cementing Hoover's unpopularity.
Gangsters grew in power and success due to this constitutional amendment
What is the 18th amendment?
The term given to FDR's forced closures of banks to check their financial stability.
What is bank holiday (or Emergency Banking Act)?
The name of the biggest public works project of the New Deal and what it did.
What is the WPA (Works Progress Admin) and itbuilt roads, bridges, airports, dams, tunnels, etc
This federal body was established to monitor the stock market and eliminate fraud and corruption.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
The name given to depraved shack towns that sprung up in cities across the nation during the GD.
What are Hoovervilles?
The name for bold, young, women who challenged social conventions during the 1920s and the group that rose in strength to counter such 'loose morality'.
What are Flappers and fundamentalists or the 2d Klan (KKK)?
After its passage, this was considered the Magna Carta of labor.
What is the Wagner Act (or National Labor Relations Act)?
The Glass Steagal Act featured these two provisions
What is FDIC and separation of investment and commercial banks?
Name the Presidents in order from 1920, 1924, 1928 and 1932
The dates of Black Thursday and Black Tuesday.
What is October 24, 1929 and October 29, 1929?
Identify the most impactful source of cultural identity and the most influential cause of consumer spending during the 1920s
What is the radio and use of credit?
The name of the economist who advocated federal spending to stimulate the economy.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
The name of Mr. Baran's Great Great Great Uncle who knew President Lincoln and the monumental trial in the Senate he attended in 1868.
Who is William Fessenden!? Andrew Johnson's impeachment?