When all of a banks customers try to close their accounts at the same time.
What is a bank run?
100
Who were the protestors?
Who are WWI vets?
100
CCC (plant trees, build parks, young men)
What is Relief, Recovery.
100
Also called 'Progressive' for their ideas
Who are Liberals?
200
Created more affordable, government ran electrical power to be provided to the people. Competed with private companies.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
200
This man was president when the Depression began.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
200
What did these protestors want from the government?
What is their pensions (not due until 1945)?
200
WPA (young men building roads, construction, roads)
What is Recovery, Relief?
200
Believed that government should leave the american economy to itself and the people.
What are Conservatives?
300
The program that urged farmers to cut production to drive prices up, government payed for uncut land.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
300
This contains 'booms' and 'busts' that could have predicted a fall in the stock market.
What is the business cycle?
300
What were the shantytowns on the homeless called?
What is "Hoovervilles"?
300
AAA (farmers paid to not grow)
What is Reform, Relief?
300
Believed people should be given direct aid, not businesses.
What is Liberals?
400
Made 'insider trading', enforced protections for investors in the stock market
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
400
The day the market crashed, and the nickname it received.
What is October 29th, 1929 (Black Tuesday)
400
What did Hoover ask his general to do, and what did he really do?
He asked Gen. MacArthur to reason and negotiate, but were instead driven out by tanks, gas and guns.
400
SEC (make stock market safer)
What is Reform, Recovery?
400
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a....
What is Liberal?
500
Brought about by the SEC, you see this sign at the bank that says your deposits are government insured.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC)?
500
Who did the public blame for the crash?
Who are Businessmen, Bankers, and Brokers?
500
Explain how the Bonus Army event hurt Hoover in the Election of 1932.
He had fought against the homecoming heroes of a generation. WWI veterans, trying to receive their bonus from the government, were literally shot down by that same government.
500
NRA (imposed ethical codes on businesses)
What is Recovery, Reform?
500
In a picture, FDR is a child on Christmas. Uncle Sam is next to him. FDR says 'Im hoping to get something...' as he points to socks hanging over the fire labeled ABC programs. This author is probably...