Who Dat
New York Governor, Democratic presidential candidate.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Buying stocks on borrowed money
What is buying on the margin?
Secured financial stability for the elderly, disabled
What is Social Security?
Severe drought, top soil blowing away
What was the Dust Bowl?
Was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
Blamed for the Great Depression
Who was President Hoover?
Special session of congress called by President Roosevelt.
What was "100 Days"?
Provided part-time jobs to students.
What was the National Youth Administration (NYA)?
17,000 WWI veterans in Washington D.C.
What is the Bonus Army?
Hired people to build dams and generators
What was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Tactic used to keep companies from replacing workers
What is the sit-down strike?
Up and Down pattern of the economy
What is the business cycle?
Employed more than 8.5 million people, including artist and musicians.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA) ?
October 29th, stock market crashed
What is Black Tuesday?
Hired people to build roads and airports.
What was the Civil Works Administration (CWA)?
Helped lead to the Great Depression
What was limited market competition?
Groups of shacks built out of tin and cardboard.
What are Hoovervilles?
Recognized unions' rights to collectively bargain
what was the National Labors Relation Act (Wagner Act)?
Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Robert C. Weaver, William Henry Hastie
What was the Black Cabinet?
Helped refinance mortgages for farmers
What was the Farm Credit Administration (FCA)?
Helped lead to the Great Depression
What was the over production of goods?
Famous Author from the Great Depression era
Who was John Steinbeck?
Argued that the New Deal gave too much authority to the president and too much government expansion.
What was the American liberty League?
Famous Folk singer from Great Depression Era
Who was Woody Guthrie?
Provided jobs improving national parks and planting trees
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?