Vocabulary
A discriminatory real estate practice in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods.
What is Redlining?
The president at the start of the Great Depression
The president who came up with the New Deal
Who is FDR?
In the 1930s a drought decimated the Great Plains region, this was known as the
What is the Dustbowl?
term for the New Deal programs designed to provide immediate help for individuals either by way of jobs or relief checks, it is a short term "band-aid" to help people weather the storm
What is Relief?
The time period that FDR passed many laws and acts to help with the Great Depression
What is The First 100 Days?
What were the 3 goals of the New Deal?
What were relief, recovery and reform?
This was as high as 25% during the Great Depression
What is unemployment?
WWI Veterans who came to Washington D.C. for early payment of bonuses of wartime service
Who is the bonus army?
A series of radio talks where FDR explained the New Deal programs to the American people
What was the goal of programs like the FDIC and SEC?
What is restoring the public's trust in the banking system
What was an immediate result of "Black Tuesday"?
What is millions lost their life savings?
term for the New Deal programs which were intended to create long term adjustments through legislation or regulation in hopes of preventing future economic depressions
What is Reform?
What are some causes of the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Overproduction, high tariffs
The political ideology who thought the federal government should stabilize itself without interference (the government shouldn't help the people)
Who are the conservatives?
Hoovers belief in this concept led to a lack of direct aid to those in need
What is Rugged Individualism?
when more goods are being produced than consumers are buying (also under consumption)
What is Overproduction?
What would you call a group of cardboard houses set up in a public park or street alley?
What are Hoovervilles?
What did the Radical populists believe?
What is Federal planning of all aspects of the government & economy
Places where people in need were provided food
What were Breadlines?