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His agenda of "Return to Normalcy" after WWI with less government and lower tax rates helped bring about a quick end to a massive economic downturn.
Who is Warren Harding?
The action of producing more of something than is needed, or producing too much.
What is Overproduction?
a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
What is a Drought?
FDR used the radio to speak directly with Americans about the economic crisis and other topics.
What are Fireside Chats?
This program provided funds for building government buildings, airports, hospitals, schools, roads, bridges, and dams
What is the Public Works Administration?
An American documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
Investors and businesses lost a huge amount of money when this crashed.
What is the Stock Market?
A migrant agricultural worker, especially from Oklahoma in the 1930s when many white migrants from the midwestern drought and cotton-growing states moved westward.
What is an "Okie"?
A famous quote that FDR is known for.
What is "The Only Thing we have to fear is fear itself".
appointing younger justices to the court so that they would rule in favor of his New Deal legislation.
What is FDR's Court Packing Plan?
He proposed the "Share the Wealth" program and was known as "The King Fish".
Who is Huey Long?
This event contributed to the Great Depression by causing agricultural depression, which led to business losses, increased unemployment, and bank closures.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Without native grasses to hold the soil in place, this weather event picked up the dry topsoil and created massive dust storms
What is high winds?
A program consisting of three parts: Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
What is the New Deal?
This program employed people on a wide range of projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, as well as arts and manufacturing.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
After World War I, he rescued millions of Europeans from starvation, homelessness, and hunger in his own country during the early years of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Borrowing more debt than one can comfortably manage and repay, often impacting their ability to meet other financial obligations.
What is overuse of credit?
This term from The Dust Bowl caused hundreds or thousands of deaths from dirt clogging the lungs.
What is Dust Pneumonia?
The term for a week-long suspension of banking transactions in the United States during the Great Depression.
This Act created a social insurance program that provided a steady income for retired workers
What is the Social Security Act?
This group saw the New Deal as a perilous journey towards socialism, bankruptcy, and dictatorship.
Who is the American Liberty League?
The term used when depositors lost confidence in banks and demanded their money in cash.
What is a bank panic?
This state passed an "Anti-Okie Law" that made it a misdemeanor to help an indigent person enter the state.
What is California?
FDR presented and was able to rapidly get passed a series of 15 major bills designed to counter the effects of the Great Depression.
What is FDR's First 100 Days?
The act requiring banks to choose between being a commercial bank or an investment bank, and prohibited them from mixing the two types of business. The act established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which insured bank deposits up to $250,000 at the time.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?