A New Deal for the American People
Fireside Chats.
What were the conversations FDR had with Americans about the Great Depression and the New Deal over the radio called?
This amendment banned the sale and production of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
When people borrowed money to buy stocks, it was called this.
What is buying on margin?
This was the unemployment rate at the worst point in the Great Depression.
What is 25%?
This system includes extreme nationalism, militarism, and a single dictator.
What is fascism?
This program planted trees, built trails, and gave young men conservation jobs.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This cultural movement celebrated Black art, music, and writing.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This farming issue lowered the value of crops.
What is overproduction?
These makeshift towns for newly homeless people were named after President Hoover.
What are Hoovervilles?
This Italian leader brought fascism to Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
This agency insured bank accounts to prevent panic and protect savings.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
This famous trial debated whether evolution could be taught in schools.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Buying goods on credit and paying it back over time was known as this.
What is installment buying?
Over farming (and drought) the land causing lots of erosion led to this.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This German leader used fascism to rise to power in the 1930s.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This New Deal policy paid farmers to produce less so prices would rise.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?
The Emergency Quota Act.
What is a law that limited immigration into the US?
This 1929 event caused panic and major financial losses.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
These massive dust storms made it hard for farmers to do this.
What is grow crops or raise animals?
This is when a country does not take sides in a war.
What is neutrality?
The Social Security Act.
What New Deal program required Americans to do this so they could receive money after retiring?
This led to the rise of organized crime during the 1920s.
What is Prohibition?
The effect of bank runs.
When people lost their savings due to many people trying to withdraw their money at the same time?
During the Great Depression, this group was often helped last by relief programs.
Who are Black Americans?
One argument for neutrality in the war.
What is problems (like the Depression) at home/European affairs are not America's problem/we don't want to get involved in another global conflict.