Causes of the Dep.
Effects of the Dep.
FDR's New Deal
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Legacy of the New Deal
100
The first major cause of the depression was this event that occurred Oct. 29, 1929
What is the stock market crash?
100
By 1932, this percentage of Americans was unemployed
What is 30%?
100
This is one of the first things FDR did after he was elected president. It allowed the government to close the bad banks for good.
What is the bank holiday?
100
These measures to taken to stop the immediate downturn in the economy
What are relief measures?
100
This is the political legacy of the New Deal
What is the New Deal Coalition?
200
This cause of the great depression caused higher unemployed through the use of more machines and less work by hand
What is mechanization?
200
This group of people suffered the most during the depression
What are minorities?
200
FDR's New Deal created laws in these three areas
What are relief, reform and recovery?
200
This New Deal recovery program was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
What is National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
200
Before FDR's election in 1932, African American voters usually voted with this political party
What is Republican?
300
The stock market crash was made worse because people often bought stocks on this
What is margin?
300
Homeless people in big cities moved to these shanty towns
What are Hoovervilles?
300
This law gave people confidence in the banking system
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC)?
300
This permanent act helped the elderly and continues to do so today
What is The Social Security Act?
300
Two reasons why the New Deal was considered successful
What are raised incomes, gave people hope, helped the less fortunate, aided the elderly, etc?
400
This tax on imports had the effect of giving American business no one to sell products to
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
400
This president was blamed for a lot of the effects of the depression because he believed in a theory called
Who is Hebert Hoover and Rugged Individualism?
400
The end of the New Deal quickly came after FDR tried to pass this bill that would allow him to appoint favorable judges to the Supreme Court
What is the court-packing plan?
400
The TVA provided services, like electricity, to people in Tennessee and this region of the country
What is the southeast?
400
Two reasons the New Deal was considered unsuccessful
What are raised the debt, increased size of government, made people dependent on government, etc.?
500
The Federal Reserve kept these high, which led to people spending less money, and thus keeping our economy down
What are interest rates?
500
Farmers in this region were hit hard by Dust Storms
What is the Great Plains?
500
The Supreme Court used this power when it declared the New Deal unconstitutional
What is judicial review (checks and balances)?
500
The SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) helps stop this in the stock market
What is fraud and/or insider trading?
500
This is the reason that WWII ended the Great Depression and not the New Deal
What is WWII provided jobs to anyone that wanted one, while the New Deal was not able to get everyone a job?
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