Depression Basics
This term refers to the worldwide economic collapse of the 1930s caused by overproduction and financial speculation.
What is the Great Depression?
This program provided workers with unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, and insurance for families.
What is the Social Security Act?
This was the nickname for the area of the Midwest that suffered severe drought and storms in the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
These were the direct radio broadcasts FDR used to speak to the American people and restore confidence.
What are Fireside Chats?
These are the "Three Rs" that the New Deal programs were divided into.
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This 1930 tariff backfired when foreign nations increased their own tariffs, leading to a massive decline in global trade.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
This program gave jobs to young men for environmental projects like planting trees and cleaning up forests.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
These were farmers who were forced to move from the Dust Bowl to California in search of work.
Who were Okies?
This was the upbeat slogan used by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his campaign.
What is "Happy Days Are Here Again"?
Unlike Herbert Hoover, FDR was much more willing to use this to solve economic problems.
What is government intervention?
These two economic factors—making too many goods and people not buying enough—led to falling prices and the Depression.
What are overproduction and underconsumption?
This act legalized the right to form unions and defined "unfair labor practices."
What is the Wagner Act?
These were the two primary causes of the Dust Bowl.
What are over-farming and severe drought?
She was America's first female cabinet member and played a major role in creating Social Security.
Who is Frances Perkins?
One major result of the New Deal was that people relied much more on this entity for assistance.
What is the Federal Government?
This term describes a situation where the government spends more money than it is taking in through taxes.
What is deficit spending?
This program built a series of dams to control flooding and generate cheap electricity in a specific rural region.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Between 1934 and 1942, the government planted 200 million trees for this specific environmental purpose.
What is to create a windbreak (to stop soil erosion/evaporation)?
In 1937, FDR attempted this controversial move because he was angry the court ruled some New Deal programs unconstitutional.
What is "packing" the Supreme Court?
This corporation was established to protect bank deposits and increase investor confidence in financial institutions.
What is the FDIC?
This group of Americans faced severe financial difficulty throughout the 1920s, even before the stock market crashed.
Who were farmers?
This 1938 act established a federal minimum wage and prohibited "oppressive child labor."
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?
This iconic Dorothea Lange photograph depicted the hardships of families losing their homes during this era.
What is "Migrant Mother"?
This group of WWI veterans marched on Washington D.C. to demand early payment of their service bonuses.
Who was the Bonus Army?
This New Deal program was specifically designed to correct abuses and maintain fair practices in the stock market.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?