Three R's
Immediate financial support to those who need assistance following the Great Depression
What is Recovery
programs and aide created to help the economy revive itself and create job oppurtunities
what is recovery
programs created to fix problems areas to prevent something like this from happening again
what is reform
Stalk market failing that led to the Great Depression
What is Black Tuesday?
President in office during the start of Great Depression
Who is Herbet Hoover?
This political party believed that too much money on direct relief & government intervention into business; trying to socialize the economy
This political party felt the New Deal does not go far enough to help the poor & reform the nation’s economic system
What are liberals
This branch of government declared one of the programs unconstitutional
What is the Supreme Court?
Event that occured because of overproduction, drought, and wind
What is the dust bowl?
type of farming that farmers had to turn to in the times of the Great Depression
What is tenant farming?
This person changed the role of the first lady during the New Deal?
This person was the first female cabinet member
Who is Frances Perkin?
This bill restored tribal control over Native American land and encouraged the practice of Indian religions, language, & traditional customs
What is Indian Reorganization Act of 1934?
Farm families who packed up everything & traveled to California in search of work as farmhands
What are okies?
Areas consisting of shacks where the homeless lived
What are shantytowns?
The president that was in officer during the New Deal
FDR
What bill would allow FDR to reorganize the court & appoint an additional 6 Supreme Court justices
Mary McLeod Bethune and Robert Weaver both helped run and organize this organization
What is Black Cabinet?
Theory that Herbert Hoover subscribed to, one sucesss should be based on their own doing.
What is rugged individualism?
Places where lines of people waiting to receive food provided by charitable organizations or public agencies
What are soup kitchens and bread lines?
This law established the United States Housing Authority (USHA) that provided $500 million in loans for low-cost housing projects across the country.
What is Housing Act of 1937?
This labor law and consumer law passed by the 73rd US Congress to authorize the president to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery.
What is National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933?
These acts were delcared unconstitutional by the supreme court
AAA & NIRA
How many banks shut down in 1929 due to economic failure?
The act that was designed to lessen foreign competition by having high protective taxes that eventually backfired, reducing the flow of goods into the US, lowering the amount of US currency globally
What is the Hawley Smoot Tariff?