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This program established by Congress on March 31, 1933, provided jobs for young, unemployed men during the Great Depression.

CCC

100

This repealed the 18th amendment making alcohol sales legal again.

21st Amendment

100

Banks closed for a "banking holiday" to restore confidence in the financial system and created the FDIC

The Emergency Banking Act

100

This program insures deposits, examines, and supervises financial institutions for safety

FDIC

100

A set of programs created by FDR to get the US out of the depression were known as what?

New Deal
100

This program offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops as well as teaching them sustainable farming practices.

AAA
100

A system of Federal old-age benefits for retired workers.

Social Security Act
100

This person opposed FDR and his New Deal Programs. He believed we should give more to the poor.

Huey "Kingfish" Long

100

FDR trying to change the Supreme Court from 9 to 15 candidates is know as what?

Court Packing

100

This program established minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments.

Fair Labor Standards Act

100

Tuesday, October 29th 2029 is known as what?

Black Tuesday

100

List the causes of the great depression? 

Farmers defaulting on a loan

Other countries defaulting on loans to the US

Bank Failures

100

What percent of the workforce was unemployed in the Great Depression?

25%

100

Who was president at the beginning of the Great Depression?

Herbert Hoover
100

What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?

Taxes on imported goods that caused inflation world wide

100

Why were millions of acres of land plowed to grow wheat in the Midwest?

The government paid farmers to grow wheat during WW1

100

What factors led to the dust bowl?

(3 things)

Severe drought 

Loss of native grasslands due to over farming

Heavy Winds

100

What did the Bonus Army want?

Early payment for WW1 service bonuses

100

How many days did FDR call an emergency congress for when he was elected president?

100 days
100

How many laws did congress pass in the emergency session at the beginning of FDR's presidency?

15

100

This moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3.

20th Amendment 

100

Hoover wanted to give money to the big companies so it would trickle down to working people. How did FDR's plan differ from this?

He wanted to support the "forgotten man" at the bottom to get them back to work

100

What are the three Rs of the New Deal

Relief, Recovery, Reform

100

How much money is currently insured by the FDIC?

$250,000

100

Which New Deal Program did the supreme cours rule unconstitutional in 1935-36?

AAA, NIRA

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