Vocab
The time period after the Roaring 20's that faced great economic decline was known as this.
What is the Great Depression?
This New Deal program raises farm crop prices and pays farmers to destroy their crops.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
FDR's first days in office as president became known as this during the depression.
What are the First Hundred Days?
The name given to the day that the Stock Market crashed was known as this.
What is Black Tuesday?
Unlike the Super Bowl this bowl during the 1930's happened in the Great Plains and brought drought to the area.
What is the Dust Bowl?
FDR's Plan to fix the economy during the Great Depression was called this.
What is the New Deal?
This Program provides pensions (funds) for elderly.
What is the Social Security Act (SSA)?
Term used to describe FDR closing banks for four days under the Emergency Banking Relief Act.
What is a Bank Holiday?
This man was President during the Start of the Great Depression and gets blamed for the Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This New Deal Program builds large scale construction. Ex. Dams, bridges, schools, etc.
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
These towns were built by the homeless during the Great Depression.
What are Hooverville's?
Program that provides work for young people to plant trees, build parks, etc.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC)?
During the Depression the National Recovery Administration had companies put a blue one of these birds on all their products. It is also the national bird that symbolizes freedom.
What is an eagle?
The reason behind the stock market crash is because people do this with their stocks in a short period of time.
What is Sell?
This term was used by the government during the 1920's which kept a "Hands-off" approach in the free market.
What is "Laissez-Faire"?
Franklin Roosevelt used the radio weekly to reassure the American people during the Depression in these chats.
What are Fireside Chats?
This program Gives people minimum wage and maximum working hours.
What is the National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
The group of advisors that helped FDR come up with the New Deal during the First Hundred Days were known to him as this.
What is his Brain Trust?
President Hoover sees that this industry during the beginning of the Depression has been struggling for a long time with prices increasing on expenses but not on their crops.
What is the Farming Industry?
This President along with his "Brain Trust" come up with a plan to get out of the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This term in economics is used to describe a rise in prices with a decrease in the value of money.
What is Inflation?
New Deal Program that generates cheap hydroelectric power to attract industry.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
FDR came up with 3 R's to help his New Deal and prevent another Depression. These 3 R's are known as these.
What are Relief, Recovery and Reform?
People come into trouble from buying stocks on this during the 1920's which leads to the start of the depression.
What is buying Stocks on Margin?
This President gets blamed for the Great Depression during the 1930's and loosing re-election in a landslide in 1932.
Who is Herbert Hoover?