People
The president who came up with the New Deal
FDR
Makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks built on public land for homeless people during the depression
Hoovervilles
What is the day the stock market crashed
Oct. 29, 1929
A period when manufacturing is down, unemployment is very high, and a lot of banks and businesses close down
Depression
This agency regulates the stock market
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission? (SEC)
The President at the start of the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
Name the three Rs, or the three purposes of FDR's New Deal Programs
Reform, Recovery and Relief
The person who was blamed for the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
The general name for Dust Bowl refugees
Okies
This agency gave young adults employment to work on various conservation projects
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Governor of Louisiana who came up with the "Share The Wealth" plan
Huey Long
This program, part of FDR's Second New Deal & still in existence today, provides a pension, or guaranteed, regular payments, for many people 65 and older.
Social Security
WWI army veterans that went to Washington to get a promised bonus were known as the.
Bonus Army
What was the name of FDR's radio broadcasts where he spoke to all America like they were simply his friends
Fireside Chats
This agency paid farmers NOT to farm some of their land
AAA - (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)
Sent to clear out the Bonus Army using tear gas and fixed bayonets
Douglas MacArthur
This group of people thought the New Deal went too far
Conservatives
One of the first sit-down strikes in the United States, where autoworkers occupied a General Motors Body Plant for 44 days; demanding the company stop sending work to non-union plants and to establish a fair minimum wage scale.
Flint Autoworkers Strike
Roosevelt's attempt to add justices to the Supreme Court.
Court Packing
This agency build public airports, sewers, roads, schools, and other buildings. It spent over 10.5 Billion dollars and employed 3.8 Million men
WPA (Works Progress Administration
A Catholic priest from Detroit, MI who had his own radio show where he blasted bankers, capitalism, and Jews.
Charles Coughlin
This was the first new deal program to be stuck down by the Supreme Court
NRA (National Recovery Act)
What is it called when you borrow money in order to buy more stock?
"buying on margin" or "Doubling Down" or On Margin
Money poured into the top of the economic pyramid will trickle down to the base
trickle-down economics
This helped establish a minimum wage, set working hour limits, and allowed for unions to bargain collectively. Later, it was declared unconstitutional.
NRA (National Recovery Act)