New Deal/FDR
Who was the creator of the New Deal Programs?
Who is President Roosevelt (FDR)
What was Hoover's belief about Government involvement
What is limited or hands off
What was at an all time high of 25%
Who was the president when the Great Depression started?
Who is Herbert Hoover
What were most American's using credit to buy prior to the stock market crash?
What is new consumer goods? (radios, washing machines, new technology of the time)
What was the nickname for all the New Deal Programs?
What is Alphabet Soup Programs
Rugged Individualism
Hoovervilles
What were the shantytowns people lived in
What disease did FDR contract as a young person
Polio
What was the CCC?
What is the Civilian Conservation Corp?
FDR worked at keeping American's informed through the radio, what were those broadcasts called
What is Fireside Chats?
This was a time in the mid west when dust and drought caused many people to starve, lose their farms, and migrate to the west coast
What is the Dust Bowl?
What gap was getting larger and larger as the 1920's progressed?
What is the gap between the rich and the poor/uneven distribution of wealth
Who did Roosevelt marry?
What program did FDR create that helped establish a built in retirement plan for all American's who earned a paycheck?
What is social security
Who said "We are going to create a country where no one is left out"?
Who is FDR?
This many people actually owned stock when the stock market crashed
3%
Americans were buying all the new consumer products (cars, radio's etc) using this type of payment
installment plan (credit) or put $ down, pay a little each month
Hoover Blankets
What is the name of the newspapers people used for blankets (a derogatory term toward Hoover)
What did FDR do that has had a lasting effect on the role of the President of the United States?
What is expanded its power (role)
What were the 3 R's of FDR's New Deal programs
Why do we have so many photos of the Great Depression to show us what life was like?
One of the New Deal programs employed people to take those photos
What were the top wealthy of the United States expected to do since they had 33% of the countries wealth?
What is sustain (or keep) the economy going?
What was the WORST year of the Great Depression?
What is 1932