Vocabulary
Libraries, parks, and highways/roads were built by these
What are public works?
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?
After the market crashed people rushed to get their money out
What were bank runs?
President FDR's plan to end the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
The time period that FDR forced Congress to stay in session to pass his programs
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?
When a small percentage of the population has most of the nation's money
What is the wealth gap?
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 are the Fireside Chats?
Much of the New Deal programs were deemed this
What is unconstitutional/illegal?
The removal of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression
What is Mexican "Repatriation"?
Unemployed workers and families got their sustenance from
What were breadlines?
Adding members to the Supreme Court to help pass FDR's New Deal Programs
What is Court Packing?
What event is blamed for starting the Great Depression?
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
The political ideology who thought the New Deal programs went too far (President Hoover)
Who are the conservatives?
Hoover's belief in this concept led to a lack of direct aid to those in need
What is Rugged Individualism?
Name two effects of the Dust Bowl
e.g. illness, dust pneumonia, migration, crop rotation
New Deal program to keep people from falling back into poverty
What is a social safety net?
What would you call a group of cardboard houses set up in a public park or street alley?
What are Hoovervilles?
New Deal Programs that restored trust in financial institutions
What are the FDIC and SEC
Huey Long who represented the Radicals thought the government should control
What are all aspects?
Name one of the causes of the Great Depression
e.g. stock market crash, bank runs, bank closures, stock speculation, overproduction