Causes
Took out loans to pay for more land, seed, tractors, etc.
What is the effect on farmers during WW1?
When the government plays a big role in relief and recovery.
What is direct relief?
To help the elderly, poor and unemployed by providing more jobs.
What are the goals of the second New Deal?
1st woman to serve in Presidential cabinet.
Who is Frances Perkins?
A long period during the 1930's consisting of major dust storms where cattle and crops were killed.
What is the dust bowl?
1. Uneven distribution of wealth
2. High consumption of the wealthy
3. The poor stops buying
What is emerging problems in the 1920's?
To provide relief, recovery, and reform.
What is the New Deal?
Provided a pension for the elderly and others.
What is the social security act?
African American adviser to the President on racial issues.
What is the Black Cabinet?
Soup kitchens and bread lines offered free meals.
What are the effects of charities during/after the Great Depression?
Buying on margin and speculation.
What is the stock market crash?
When the bank would close for 4 days in order for banks to get re-organized.
What is a bank holiday?
Employees' right to join a union and right to collective bargaining.
What is the Wagner Act?
What is the Indian New Deal?
Makeshift "houses" built on public property.
What are Hoovervilles?
Indicator of how healthy the stock market is.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
Used to inform the people of what was being done to solve issues, created by FDR.
What are fireside chats?
When FDR asked Congress to add 6 justices to the Supreme Court
A diverse group of voters brought together by the New Deal.
What is the New Deal Coalition?
Farmers were unable to pay debts and often had to move due to foreclosure.
What is a cause of crop prices decreasing?
What is Black Tuesday?
Conservatives believed the New Deal made the government too powerful.
Liberals believed the New Deal did not go far enough.
What is the opposition of the New Deal regarding political parties?
Republicans gained strength in Congress.
What is the economic downturn of 1938?
Government that provides for the elderly, sick, poor, disabled, and unemployed.
What is a welfare state?
1. Some men abandoned the family, committed suicide.
2. Birthrates declined due to familial tension and economics.
3. Children quit school to work, ran away.
What were the effects on families during the Great Depression?