New Deal
What was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
(TVA), hired people to build dams and generators in the Tennessee River Valley
The Dust Bowl stetched from what states?
North dakota to Texas
In the "Hundred Days" session with Roosevelt and Congress, they worked together to create new programs to battle the depression. The set of programs was called ...
the New Deal
a severe economic downturn that lasted for more than ten years
The Great Depression
FDR was crippled due to what disease?
Polio
what program did the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt help create?
National Youth Administration (NYA)
What did scientists come up with to prevent another Dust Bowl?
Planted grass and trees
Groups of tin and cardboard shacks built by homeless families were nicknamed...
Hoovervilles
Parts of the Great Plains where a severe drought struck were known as the
Dust Bowl
What year did the Great Depression begin?
1929
What probelms did the New deal face with the supreme court?
They declared many programs unconstitutional
Many families left their farms and moved to...
California
what is a recession?
high unemployment, less buying, failed businesses
What happened on Black Tuesday of October 29, 1929?
The stock market crashed
People were so poor that they made cloths out of?
sacks
Which of the New Deal programs helped create the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
What would people do to escape from reality?
2 things
dance to swing music and go to the theaters
Purchasing stocks on credit with a loan is called....
Buying on margin
President Hoover lost the election of 1932 because...
He did not believe,
however, that it was the federal government’s role to provide direct relief to
Americans. Hoover felt it was up to private individuals and institutions, not
the government, to offer relief.
What was the Bonus Army?
A Hooverville in Washington D.C, made up of WWI veterans demanding their military bonus
To help pay for this program, the law placed a new tax on workers and employers. What program was it?
Social Security Act (SSA)
Why were the leaders of California trying to deport Mexican-Americans?
To open jobs for white americans
Who was Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor and the first woman cabinet member?
Frances Perkins
What were fireside chats?
radio addresses in which the president spoke directly to the American people.
Hoover implemented one program that loaned 1.2 billion dollars to banks and other financial institutions. What was it called?
Reconstruction Finances Corporations (RFC)