FDR
He was president during these years.
What is 1933-1945?
These were the two causes of the Dust Bowl.
What is long term drought and poor farming techniques?
Herbert Hoover believed in this economic ideology, which meant that he did not do a lot to stop the Great Depression originally.
What is laissez-faire economics?
This was FDR's set of policies that transformed the role of the US federal government.
What is the New Deal?
The New Deal did this to the national debt.
What is raised the national debt?
Though many people moved to other areas, this state received the largest increase in migrants as a result of the Dust Bowl.
What is California?
This was Herbert Hoover's idea that, if people just worked harder, then they would be fine.
What is Rugged Individualism?
This is how the Great Depression change the role of the US federal government.
What is being more involved and providing for people?
This was an agency created by FDR during the New Deal that insured deposits in banks of up to $5,000. This was done to increase confidence in banks and savings accounts.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
There are six states in the Midwest region, which is where the Dust Bowl occurred. Name three.
What are Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota?
Hoover's biggest success as president was the construction of this engineering marvel, which showcased how important public works programs are to helping restore the economy.
What is the Hoover Dam?
This act provided support to the elderly and the disabled by supplying them with a small, fixed income amount once they reached 65 years old.
What is the Social Security Act?
This agency, also created by FDR, was designed to increase the confidence of investors in the stock market. It created more regulations for putting your company on the market, which helped decrease fraud and deception on the stock market.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
People often stood in massive lines at these places, which provided the unemployed and destitute with food. Because the government refused to intervene in the early years of the Depression, charities started these to help.
What are soup kitchens?
Hoover's most notable failure was dealing with this group when they came to protest for a bonus to be paid in 1945. This showcased Hoover's extreme unwillingness to use the government to give people money.
What was the Bonus Army?
This act helped farmers reduce Overproduction problems by paying them to reduce their output of goods. It led to a mass killing of livestock for money, and was eventually declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
This was a radio program that FDR created in order to speak directly to the American people. He used this platform to reassure people that things would be fine, and he also used it to gain support for his policies.
What are Fireside Chats?
These towns were created by the unemployed and homeless, and they were named after the person they thought was responsible.
What are Hoovervilles?
This was another policy failure enacted by Hoover to indirectly help the economy. While others like it had supported US industry in the past, this one failed because it caused a collapse of international trade, leading to even more unemployment and poverty in the US.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
This act was passed as part of the Second New Deal. This act granted the right of unions to collectively bargain for an increase in wages or other privileges from businesses.
What is the Wagner Act?