Terms
Veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment of a WWI bonus.
Bonus Army
If the economy and the stock market were compared to a dog and a dogwalker, which would be the dog and which the walker?
The Economy is the walker and the stock market is the dog.
What does this mean though?
It was a New Deal program to improve the economy this region. It was controversial because, according to its opponents, government interference in the region's economy and society was too great. Critics said it would put private power companies out of business.What was the TVA, and why was it controversial?
What was the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Who were some critics of the New Deal
Huey Long and Francis Townsend
This author wrote the Grapes of Wrath.
John Steinbeck.
Projects built by the government for public use.
Public Works
What was the date of Black Tuesday?
October 29, 1929
How did the New Deal help farmers?
The Agricultural Adjustment Act paid farmers not to grow certain crops to dispose certain surplus crops and animals. The Rural Electrification Administration brought power lines to rural areas.
What did some critics think FDR should be doing to end the depression?
Huey Long thought FDR should be heavily taxing the rich to help end the depression.
Francis Townsend advocated for a pension program that would aid those over 60 and also encourage them to retire.
This art form helped restore American's faith in their nation.
Film
Government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes designed to stabilize industry.
National Recovery Administration.
What caused the Great Crash?
The Crash was caused by a lack of confidence in the market and many who were invested sold their stocks.
This man said "walk quietly and carry a big stick" and was FDR's uncle.
Who was president Theodore Roosevelt?
Why did FDR want to pack the courts?
He wanted to pack the courts in order to ensure that all of his New Deal measures would be affirmed by the Supreme Court.
Migrant workers from Oklahoma were called this.
What is an Okie?
Labor organization founded in the 1930s to represent workers in basic mass-production industries.
Congress of Industrial Organizations.
What economic trouble was there during the 1920s?
The act set up a pension program and the nation's first system of unemployment insurance.
Social Security Act.
This radio broadcaster, and later filmmaker/actor, read War of the Worlds on the radio and scared many Americans into thinking Aliens had invaded.
Series of laws passed in the 1930s that gave Native American nations greater control over their own affairs.
Indian New Deal.
Who set up the soup kitchens and similar relief programs?
Private charities like churches.
What did some criticize about the New Deal?
That it intervened too much in people's lives (it did too much). That it did not do enough to end the depression.