Causes
This way to purchase stocks was one of the main causes of the Great Depression
What is buying on margin
A series of economic reforms and regulations endorsed by FDR
What is the New Deal
This New Deal program provides old-age pensions and other benefits to those who cannot work
What is the Social Security Act (SSA)
The three Rs of the New Deal
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Black Tuesday refers to this event
What is The Stock Market Crash of 1929
FDR used this to communicate with Americans all over the country in a comforting, effective way
What is the radio
This New Deal program sought to provide electricity to isolated regions of America
What is the Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
This group marches on Washington D.C. demanding payment for their service in World War I
What is the Bonus Army
Problem facing many farmers during the 1920s, causing agricultural prices to plummet
What is overproduction
His first act as president, FDR instituted this to save the nation's banks
What is a bank holiday
What is the Wagner Act
New Deal programs were paid for using this method
What is deficit spending
This third party saw an upsurge in membership during the Great Depression
What is the communist party
When a large amount of people attempt to simultaneously pull their money from savings accounts, as happened during the Depression
What is a bank run
Hoover supported this belief that people should be able to take care of themselves, without government assistance
What is rugged individualism
This New Deal program authorized the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
The New Deal provided people these kinds of jobs to help curb unemployment
What are public works jobs
The closing of hundreds of banks around the country caused several Americans to do this with their money
What is saving
What many Americans used to purchase goods and services before the Great Depression
What is credit
In an attempt to save the American economy, Hoover raised these, a tax on imports
What are tariffs
This New Deal Program was designed to be short-lived to help jobless Americans get through the hard winter of 1933-34.
What is the Civil Works Administration (CWA)
In response to court challenges to the New Deal, FDR threatened to do this
What is stack the court
Americans blamed primarily this group for their unemployment and poverty
What is themselves