"Relief", "Recovery" or "Reform"
The Roaring Twenties
Why am I so Depressed?
Name the Program
Hoover vs. Roosevelt
100

CCC

Relief

100
List one push factor of the Great Migration

Poor Crops (boll wevil), Jim Crow Laws, not allowed to vote, poor education

100

In what year did the Stock Market Crash?

1929

100

Asked businesses to keep a minimum wage and other business practices

National Recovery Administration

100

Finish the line "the only thing we have...

"to fear is fear itself"

200

FDIC

Reform

200

Define Nativism

belief that immigrants are inferior to native born Americans

200

How did overproduction lead to the Depression?

Companies had too much product, could not sell it and had to lay off workers

200
Provided retirement for the elderly

Social Security

200

What major public work is Hoover famous for?

Hoover Dam

300

SS

Reform

300

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Rebirth of African American culture (music, dance, literature)

300

How did other countries contribute to our depression?

They restricted trade because we restricted trade- therefore we did not have anyone to trade with

300

Built dams and hydroelectric plants to supply electricity to rural areas

Tennessee Valley Authority

300

What was Roosevelt's Plan called?

The New Deal

400

AAA

Recovery

400

List 3 ways the standard of living improved in the 1920s

fridge, hot water tank, cars with roads and shopping and trips, radio 
400

how could someone that did not invest in the stock market lose their money BECAUSE of the stock market crash?

Banks loaned on margin and could not collect when stock investors lost everything

400

Sets rules for trading in the Stock Market

Securities and Exchange Commission

400

What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?

Plan to give money to businesses

500

PWA

Recovery

500

Why were people in debt in the 1920s?

buying on credit/installment buying all of the new manufactured goods (car, radio, fridge, etc)

500

What does the FED do when unemployment is high?

Lower interest rate

500

Guarantees bank deposits even if the bank closes

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

500

List 3 plans Hoover had and why didn't they work?

Let charities do handouts, Reconstruction Finance Corp, More public projects

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