The Great Crash
FDR and the New Deal
Criticism of the New Deal
The People's Struggle
Culture of the 1930s
100
The day that the stock market crashed and signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.
Black Tuesday
100
All banks in the U.S. closed for four days.
Bank holiday.
100
Workers at the Goodyear Tire Factory carried out this type of protest until their demands were met. 
Sit down strike 
100
Often deported back to their home country in order to open up more jobs to White Americans.
Mexican Americans
100
Dorothea Lange was employed by this program when she took her iconic "Migrant Mother" photo
Federal Art Project
200

A rush of people attempting to take whatever money they had left out of the banks.

Bank runs
200
FDR explained his plan to the people and encouraged them to trust his plan would work if they did their part. 
Fireside chats.
200
Process where union representatives negotiate with management for better conditions.
Collective Bargaining
200

In order to reduce the size of this population, FDR paid for Filipinos to go home if they promised never to come back. 

Asian Americans
200
Replaced jazz as the music of the time. 
Swing music
300

Buyers would pay for only part of the cost of the stock when they first made the purchase.


Buying on margin
300
Employed men to build bridges, power plants, and government buildings. 
Public Works Administration (PWA)
300
FDR attempted to add six more justices in order to ensure his New Deal programs would be passed.
Court Packing
300
Two causes of the Dust Bowl
Over plowing of the land, drought, and high winds
300
Emerged for the first time in the 1930s.
Comic books
400
Hoover tried to help the Depression towards the end of his presidency by creating these projects that were paid and built by the government but meant for the public use. 
Public Works
400
Paid farmers to reduce their production. Eventually deemed unconstitutional.
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
400
Stated that workers had a right to join labor unions without being fired.
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
400

Group of unofficial advisers to FDR who gave him insight to their communities

Black Cabinet
400
This movie brought color to those struggling through the Great Depression, like the main character Dorothy.
Wizard of OZ
500
This event caused many Americans to turn against Hoover and helped him to lose the election of 1932.
Bonus Army Riots
500
Stated that each industry needed to set up codes for all business in that industry to follow. These codes were enforced by the NRA. 
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
500
Set up unemployment insurance, pensions for the elderly, and gave states money to to support dependent children and those with disabilities
Social Security Act
500
John Collier helped this law to be passed which granted these people more control over their own affairs.
Indian New Deal 
500
Escapism
Tending to seek distraction from unpleasant realities by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy worlds. 
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