Causes
People
Hoover's Programs
Roosevelt First Term
Roosevelt Mostly Second Term
100
The leading cause of the Great Depression
What is maldistribution of wealth? (overproduction/underconsumption)
100
The third Republican President in a row, this man was an orphaned Quaker from Iowa who graduated from Stanford.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
Hoover sent in military forces to clear the shantytowns of this group out of Washington, DC.
What is the Bonus Army?
100
Along with the bank holiday Roosevelt declared, this act centralized federal control of banking and ending the immediate banking crisis.
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
100
This employed people to do public works, conduct research, and pursue artistic projects.
What is the Works Progress Administration? (We Piddle Around)
200
Two sick industries leading to Depression
What are coal, railroads, or textiles? (any 2)
200
The most brilliant economist of his day, this man was Secretary of the Treasury when the Depression hit. Truman followed his views of Social Darwinism.
Who is Andrew Mellon?
200
Under Hoover, this provided $2 billion for loans to banks, insurance companies, RR's, and state and local governments. Only 20 % of the funds were ever distributed.
What is the Reconstruction Finacne Corporation? (RFC)
200
This employed young men to work on public works programs.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
200
Provided electricity to rural areas lacking public utilities.
What is Rural Electrification Administration or the Tennessee Valley Authority?
300
Buying stock with borrowed money
What is buying on the margin?
300
He said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror."
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
300
Besides the Hoover Dam, this dam was also constructed when state governors were ordered to increase expenditures on public works.
What is the Grand Coulee Dam?
300
This paid farmers to reduce their crops. It resulted in tenant farmers being kicked off their lands. It was later declared unconstitutional and reworked in Roosevelt's second term.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
300
Provided undemployment benefits,pensions for older Americans, and survivor's insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
400
High protective tariff passed by the US under the Hoover administration that brough international trade to a standstill
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
400
A Progressive in Congress under Roosevelt, this man introduced the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, which guaranteed a union's right to collective bargaining. This act is also called by his name.
Who is Robert Wagner?
400
Created under Hoover to generate private donations for relief, this was largely ineffective.
What is POUR? (President's Organization on Unemploymnet Relief)?
400
Part of the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act of 1933, this insured individual bank deposits.
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
400
The cornerstone of industrial recovery, this created the Nationanal Recovery Administration which urged cooperation between business and labor, set a minimum wage, and 40-hour work week, and eliminated child labor. It was a failure that was later reuled unconstitutional.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act?
500
October 24, the beginning of the Great Depression, when panic struck the stock market and JP Morgan put $20 million of his own money back into the market in a useless effort to save it.
What is "Black Thursday'?
500
Roosevelt's Secretary of labor, this was the first female cabinet member.
Who is Frances Perkins?
500
In an effort to balance the budget, Hoover raised corporate, excise, and personal income taxes with this act.
What is the Revenue Act of 1932?
500
This was created to regulate the securities market.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
500
This reversed the Dawes Act. It also provided funds to start tribal business ventures to pay for the college education of Native Americans.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
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