What were settlements of improvised buildings or houses built by people who lost their homes.
Shantytowns/Hoovervilles
What were the goals that the New Deal hoped to accomplish? (Hint: RRR)
Relief, Recovery, Reform.
This day, October 29th, 1929, was the day that the stock market crashed. It is often known as the start of the Great Depression.
Black Tuesday.
Which New Deal policy sought to regulate industry and labor practices through codes of fair competition?
The National Recovery Administration (NRA)
An inflexible president who was isolated from and insensitive to political realities, he resorted to budget balancing and various monetary solutions to complement his woefully inadequate programs.
Herbert Hoover
What are reasons why FDR won the Election of 1932?
Daily Double
People were upset by how Hoover handled the Great Depression and the Bonus March. People liked the idea of FDR's New Deal.
In order to help protect New Deal legislation, FDR tried to do what to the Supreme Court?
Court Packing
This event was when high winds and drought hit the country's Great Plains, causing people to have to leave their homes.
The Dust Bowl.
Which New Deal policy established a system of old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to dependent children?
The Social Security Act (SSA)
Made a sweeping victory in 1932 for presidential election.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What were criticisms of the New Deal?
It put the United States into debt
Which New Deal Policy was created to protect bank deposits, preventing bank runs and restoring public confidence in the banking system?
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Who was blamed for the Great Depression because of his Laissez-Faire economic principles?
Herbert Hoover.
Which New Deal policy was a public works project that aimed to improve the Tennessee Valley region by generating electricity and controlling floods?
Daily Double
The Tennessee Valley Authority
President of the National Division of Negro Affairs, this woman lived her life with purpose from age 9 to empower, encourage and educate the African American population in the early 20th century.
Daily Double
Mary LcLeod Bethune
Which New Deal policy helped to address the problems of the Dust Bowl by improving the land?
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Which New Deal policy paid farmers to reduce crop production, aiming to increase prices for agricultural goods? This policy also helped fix overproduction.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
The event where WWI army veterans went to Washington to get a promised bonus, who were eventually forced to leave by the army.
The Bonus March
Which New Deal policy granted workers the right to form UNIONS and collectively bargain with employers.
What is the Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
This person researched the conditions faced by women in factories, and then child labor in New York. She researched and advocated through her career for flaws she saw in the New deal that had to do with fair wages, safety, the rights of workers, and other social welfare programs.
Mary Abby van Kleeck
What was the name of FDR's radio broadcasts were he spoke to all America like they were simply his friends about New Deal policies?
Fireside Chats
Which New Deal policy employed young men to work on conservation projects such as reforestation, flood control, and park development.
Daily Double
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
What were the effects of Black Tuesday and the stock market crash?
Great financial loss and selling of stocks/shares.
Which New Deal policy employed millions of people on public works projects and implemented social programs?
The Works Progress Administration?
This woman, struggled with personal issues, but recognized needs and became a leader in seeing needs in the US that were not met, using her purposefully learned knowledge to influence specific leaders for policy advocacy.
Eleanor Roosevelt