Vocabulary
What is the definition of contrast?
Difference between things
What was wrong with President FDR during his whole term?
He was in a wheel chair
What caused the Great Depression?
the stock market crash of 1929; the collapse of world trade due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff; government policies; bank failures and panics; and the collapse of the money supply.
President Obama was the President during the great depression.
False
What is the Bonus Army?
Group of WWI vets. that marched to D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their goverment war bonuses in cash.
Under what President did the Great depression start?
President Hoover
Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages.
Thousands of "Okies" and other families from the "Dust Bowl" region migrated to California in the 1930s.
True
What does CIO stand for and what did they do?
Congress of Industrial Organizations; labor organization founded in the 1930s that represented industrial workers.
Under what President did the great depression end?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is the Standard Gold Act?
An Act to protect the currency system of the United States, to provide for the better use of the monetary gold stock of the United States, and for other purposes.
President Herbert Hoover's first response to the Great Depression was to issue optimistic statements and meet with business leaders in an attempt to restore public confidence in the economy.
True
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act
A law that set a minimum wage and a maximum workweek and outlawed child labor.
How long was Franklin D. Roosevelts Term and what year did it start and end?
4 years, and 1933 - 1945
What is the New Deal?
Programs and legislation enacted by FDR during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery.
The stock market reached its lowest point of the Depression era in late 1929 and then gradually inched back up, finally reaching 1928 levels by mid-1932.
False
What does NRA stand for and what did they do?
National Recovery Administration; government agency that developed codes of fair competition in industry, including minimum wages and prices.
What was Hoovers response to The Great Depression originally?
He didn't care about it, and said it was natural.
What is the Pearl Harbor attack?
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
President Hoover's sagging popularity revived significantly in response to his support of the demands of the so-called Bonus Army.
False