Acronyms
CCC
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Prohibited bankers from using depositors’ money to pursue high-risk investments.
What is the The Glass-Steagall Act?
Hoover's first name
What is Herbert?
FDR's full name
What is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
AAA
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Authorized the president to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery and established a national public works program known as the Public Works Administration.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)?
As secretary of commerce, Hoover advocating constructing this, which still supplies water to Los Angeles and Las Vegas
What is Boulder Dam or Hoover Dam?
FDR's wife, who reshaped the role of first lady
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
NIRA
What is the The National Industrial Recovery Act?
Lead actress in The Wizard of Oz
Who is Judy Garland?
Group of between 10,000 and 20,000 World War I veterans and their families who petitioned Hoover for back pay.
What is the Bonus Army?
Informal talks in which FDR addressed the American people?
What were Fireside Chats?
SEC
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
Depression-era shantytowns
What were Hoovervilles?
spending more money than the government receives in revenue
What is deficit spending?
FDIC
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
Created the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, an independent federal regulatory agency tasked with protecting investors and capital, overseeing the stock market and proposing and enforcing federal securities laws.
The Federal Securities Act
Agricultural disaster that resulted in the largest internal migration in US history
What was the Dust Bowl?
Provided government loans to homeowners who faced foreclosure because they couldn’t make their loan payments.
What was the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)?