This program attempted to stabilize farmers by cutting production
What is Agricultural Adjustment Act?
What was the effect of the Dust Bowl to people?
Caused millions of people to move west
This program gave work to men aged 18-25
What is Civil Conservation Corp?
How many Judges did FDR want to add to the court room?
What is 6
Buying on MARGIN in the stock market led to what?
What is the great depression?
This program gave old age pensions, unemployment, disability, money to dependent children.
What is Social Security?
Name 3 laws that FDR implemented in his first 100 Days
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
National Industrial Recovery Act
How did the uneven distribution of wealth in America help cause the Great Depression?
Production increased and demand declined
This group of workers used the "sit-down strike" successfully in 1937?
Automobile Workers
The main objectives of the Tennessee Valley Authority
What is to produce cheap electric power, control floods and conserve soil and forestry
Name of program that Hoover introduced that offered emergency loans to banks, farmers and businesses to prevent bankruptcies
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Why did FDR's court-packing scheme become unnecessary?
The Supreme Court began reversing judgements and upholding the New Deal
In the election of 1932, how did FDR and Hoover disagree about the role of the federal government?
By giving federal relief to individuals
How did New Deal programs and policies change the role of the federal government in domestic affairs?
Federal government expanded its role by providing for the welfare of its citizens
Actions president Hoover took to restore the economy
Asked businesses to keep producing and maintain job wages
Established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
How did FDR try to solve the banking crisis at the beginning of his presidency?
He declared a bank holiday, briefly shutting down banks
Main causes of the Great Depression
Companies overproducing with low demans
Unequal distribution of wealth between the rich and poor
Hoover's tariff policies
Stock Market crash
Three major challenges that Roosevelt faced after taking office
Reviving the economy
Relieving the human misery
Rescuing the farm industry