FDR
What does FDR stand for?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
CCC, WPA, and TVA are all examples of ________ agencies.
What is alphabet soup?
What is Hoover's first name?
Herbert!
What environmental period of little rainfall impacted the beginning of the Dust Bowl?
What is a Drought?
What month did the stock market crashes of 1929 occur?
What is October?
FDR's Administration supported this policy in Congress to make a plan to handle the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
The Social Security Administration does what?
Provides money after a certain age, like a retirement fund.
How involved in the economy should the government be according to Herbert Hoover?
Minimally
Giant clouds of dust that could blacken the sky were called "______" storms.
What is dust storms?
A large mass of people attempting to withdraw all of their money at once.
What is a bank run?
FDR was elected president this many times, it set a record and broke the precedent Washington set of only serving two terms.
What is four?
What are the three R's of the New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, Reform.
Shantytowns created in many cities at the beginning of the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
Migrants from Oklahoma were often referred to as _______.
What are "Okies"
The _________ __________ was the system that tied dollars to be worth a certain amount of a specific precious mineral.
What is the Gold Standard?
FDR would from time to time address the population on policy topics, these were known as __________.
What are Fireside Chats?
The New Deal transformed the relationship between two groups, ________ and _________.
The government and citizens.
This protectionist policies only made the Great Depression worse by stopping free trade.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
This Alphabet Soup agency paid farmers to grow fewer crops.
What is the AAA, Agricultural Adjustment Agency?
The type of economic concept in which purchasing power increases is known as ________ and was heavily experienced during the Great Depression.
What is deflation?
This man became famous during FDR's Presidency as an economist who emphasized demand-side economics.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
Spending of agencies like the CCC, TVA, WPA, ect... worked toward the larger goal of lowering what financial indicator of the health of the economy?
What is unemployment?
Money backed only by confidence is known as "_______" currency.
What is Fiat?
The book was written about a family from Oklahoma fleeing to California for a new life out West during the Dust Bowl. It is one of the most well known American Novels of the 20th century.
What is the Grapes of Wrath?
The process of not giving loans in "risky" areas that primarily hurt African American communities, or building highways that separated neighborhoods is known as ________.
Redlining?