Agencies
What was created to construct highways, roads, public buildings, streets, parks, and bridges?
Works Progress Administration
What area was affected by the Dust Bowl
Mid-West
Who was elected president in 1932
FDR
What are migrant farmers moved to California for work called?
Okies
What is "shantytowns" built by homeless people during the Great Depression
Hoovervilles
What provides insurance which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
What event was the start of the Great Depression?
stock market crash
Who created the New Deal?
F.D.Roosevelt
What guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and bargain collectively?
Wagner Act or National Labor Relations
Hurt export and import sales by raising the average tariff to the highest level
Hawely Smooth Tariff
Dam building project to control floods, conserve forestlands, and bring electricity to rural areas
Tennesse Valley Authority
What is buying something, hoping it increases in value and can be sold for profit?
Over Speculation or Speculation
Hebert Hoover
What loan money to banks, insurance companies, and other depressed businesses?
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Speculation
What established a pension for retirement, disability, and dependents?
Social Security Act
What is it called when investors borrowed BILLIONS of dollars from banks to invest in stocks?
Buying on margin
Who put the Hawley-Smooth Tariff in place?
Hoover
Who marched on the capital and demanded their pay from WWI?
Bonus Army
What ravaged the Great Plains by severe drought and wind?
Dust Bowl
What national foresty service planted trees, fought forest fires, and built reservoirs.
Civilian Conservation Corps
What is it called when businesses produce more products than people would buy?
Overproduction
Who attempted to expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 15?
FDR
What aimed to stabilize farm prices by reducing agricultural surpluses through payments to farmers who agreed to reduce production?
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
What was the most devastating stock market crash
Black Tuesday