The Depression Begins
True or False: The stock market crash of 1929 only impacted those who invested in stocks.
False (Impacted MILLIONS of Americans)
True or False: The election of Herbert Hoover is a cause of the Great Depression.
False
Set up a pension system for retired people and established unemployment insurance for workers who lost their jobs.
Social Security Act
True or False: During the Great Depression, American minorities often lost jobs to white laborers.
True
This president won all of his presidential elections (4 of them!!!) in a landslide and served 12 years in office.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks built on public land or vacant lots were called ___________
Hoovervilles
The 3 R's of Roosevelt's New Deal stood for...
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Established a minimum wage and a maximum number of hours for the workweek.
Fair Labor Standards Act
This legislation that gave Native Americans greater control over their affairs and provided funding for schools and hospitals.
Indian New Deal
This President could not handle the Great Depression, passing policies that harmed the nation, and was effectively voted out of office in the Election of 1932.
Herbert Hoover
The day that the Stock Market crashed and the Great Depression began (Oct. 29, 1929) is called _________
Black Tuesday
This Amendment passed after the death of FDR, limiting the president to two consecutive terms in office.
The 22nd Amendment
Gave workers the right to collective bargaining (aka the ability to negotiate for better pay, hours, etc).
Wagner Act
FDR invited African American leaders to advise him on minority affairs; these unofficial advisers became known as the ________________.
Black Cabinet
This First Lady changed the position forever, writing columns, representing women's issues, and serving as the "eyes and ears" of her husband.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A severe drought, over-plowing of topsoil, and erosion caused huge, deadly dust storms throughout the U.S; this event was called _________.
The Dust Bowl
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Provided jobs for more than 2 million men, who replanted forests, fought fires, etc.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
This left-wing group wanted to limit the power of the corporations and banks.
The Populist Movement
The march of WW1 veterans on Washington DC to demand early payment of their retirement benefits was called _________________.
Bonus Army
What directly caused the beginning of the Great Depression?
A sharp price in stock prices (which led to panicked selling)
Hoover started this corporation 1932 to give government loans to banks, railroads, and other big business.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Worked with industries to establish codes outlining fair business and labor practices.
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
This process, done to hundreds of thousands of Mexican Americans in the 1930s, is when the government returns immigrants to their country of origin.
This artist documented the plight of American farmers and migrant workers through photography.
Dorothea Lange