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Hoover...Nobody Does It Like You
Deal or New Deal?
New Deal 2.0
100
Their major complaint against the New Deal was that it made the government too powerful.
Who are conservatives?
100

This practice, buying stocks with loans from stockbrokers, contributed to the crash.

What is buying on margin

100
This group marched on Washington, D.C. after President Hoover vetoed a bill that would have guaranteed them an early payment of bonuses.
What is WWI veterans or the Bonus Army?
100
In contrast to Hoover, Roosevelt had the basic faith in the ability of the __________ to solve economic and social problems and to help people in need.
What is government?
100
This program, part of FDR's Second New Deal & still in existence today, provides a pension, or guaranteed, regular payments, for many people 65 and older.
What is Social Security?
200
This caused Republicans to gain power in Congress in 1938 after the mid-term election.
What is an economic downturn?
200

The stock market crash led to a _____ crisis as people rushed to withdraw deposits.

What is bank?

200
When the Great Depression hit, President Hoover responded with very few immediate actions and with little government intervention because he believed the business cycle would do this.
What is "correct itself"?
200
This act sought to end overproduction and raise crop prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
200
A major part of the Second New Deal, this organization was the largest peacetime jobs program in U.S. history. It eventually employed 8.5 million Americans on all kinds of public-works projects at a cost of about $11 billion.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
300
Critics argued that this presidential plan was clearly in conflict with the constitutional principle of checks and balances.
What was FDR's Court Packing Scheme or his plan to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices?
300

On this day, investors sold more than 16 million shares of stock causing the collapse of the stock market.

What is October 29, 1929 or Black Tuesday?

300

He relied on people's good will to do things for each other - richer people giving to the poor and charitable organizations like churches helping those in need.

What is volunteerism? 
300
The day after taking office, Roosevelt called Congress into a special session and convinced them to pass this law which would allow him to call a bank "holiday".
What is the Emergency Banking Bill?
300
Set a precedent for government spending on the arts on artists.
What is the Federal Art Project?
400
This agency brought electricity to one of the poorest parts of the country, but critics disliked it because it gave government direct control of a business.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
400
The periodic expansion and contraction of the economy that occurs over time in virtually every economy.
What is the business cycle?
400

Congress creates this institution to loan money to banks, who would then lend money to businesses to stimulate the economy.

What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)?

400
The United States's reduction in investments in Europe which was the primary factor for this.
What is the spread of the Great Depression overseas?
400
In order to protect labor unions, FDR created this act outlawing a number of antilabor practices, such as the creation of company-sponsored unions. It also established a powerful new National Labor Relations Board and gave the right to collective bargaining.
What is the National Labor Relations Act or the Wagner act?
500
This opponent of the New Deal believed that the program did not do enough to help poor Americans. Instead he argued for high taxes on the wealthy and large corporations, and to redistribute their wealth to poor Americans.
Who is Senator Huey Long
500
After WWI the economy did this.
What is a slight recession and then economic growth.
500

Many Americans decide that the United States needed new leadership in 1932 when this type of economic policy provided no relief from the Great Depression.

What is Hoover's volunteerism and trickle-down economic policies?

500
Created in 1934, this still serves as a government watchdog over the nation’s stock market.
What is the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)?
500

This is the New Deal program that built Moscow High School

What is the Public Works Administration?

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