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Who was Franklin Roosevelts secretary of labor and the first woman cabinet member?
Frances Perkins
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What is the name of the economic downturn that lasted for more than 10 years?
The Great Depression
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Parts of the Great Plains where a severe drought struck was known as the...___________. Why?
Dust Bowl.... explain
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What is the term for purchasing stocks on credit with a loan...
buying on a margain
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What happened on Black Tuesday, Oct 29 1929?
What is the stock market crashed
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Who was President before Roosevelt?
Hoover
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When the stock market crashed, this was the start of the...
Great Depression
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How did President Hoover respond to the depression?
He reassured Americans and implemented government programs to help banks, and people.
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Why do you think Americans were so unprepared for these difficult times?
The economy was so strong the years before, that they thought these good times would last forever.
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What New Deal programs did lawmakers create during the Hundred days? Name atleast 3.
Emergency Banking Relief Act, FCA, CCC, AAA, TVA, FDIC, NIRA, CWA.
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Which President created the "New Deal"?
Roosevelt
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How did the Works Progress Administration help Americans?
The WPA employed 8.5 million people and built thousands of public use projects.
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Do you think the New Deal was successful? Explain.
Yes, because it employed many people, helped banks and other companies start up again, provided new service projects, etc.
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How did the Great Depression affect Mexican Americans?
They found it harder to get work and some were deported.
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How did Depression-era culture show both hope and the difficulties of everyday life?
The works of some artists reflected on sadness and the feeling of their life and the depression, while some was upbeat and happy so that people can look past the depression and onto hope.
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Name the first lady at the time of the depression...
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Why do you think many African Americans supported President Roosevelt, even though they continued to face discrimination and segregation?
Two programs were made to help African Americans. He also supported African Americans by having an African American member in his cabinet team and fighting for equal rights.
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President Roosevelt used fireside chats to...
Get people to have faith in the country again, Convince people that it was safe in banks, convince people that the economy would turn around.
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Dorothea Lange contributed to our understanding of the Depression by...
Photographing Migrant workers.
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How did the National Labor Relations Act affect organized labor?
It increased the power of labor unions and helped them grow.
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Explain why Franklin D Roosevelt is so important?
New Deal, president in rough times, 3 terms president.
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What part of the business cycle contributed to the depression?
Businesses produce more than they can sell, so manufacturing slows.
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What was a part of the New Deal...
Fixing unemployment, offering jobs, loaning money to banks, etc.
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Name a way many families coped with the Great Depression..
They separated to look for work.
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"66 is the path of people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the land and the streal what little richness is there" -John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Why did people travel on Highway 66 - according to this.
Fleeing the bad land to the good land
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