Causes of the Depression
Factory and farm output created this economic issue when production surpassed consumer purchasing.
What is overproduction?
The two major political candidates who faced off in the Presidential Election of 1932
Who are Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt?
By early 1933, the nation's economic collapse left this percenage of the American workforce unemployed
What is 25%?
President Roosevelt's policy framework to combat the Great Depression was categorized into these "3 R's"
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This Louisiana politician believed the government should redistribute wealth to help poor Americans.
Who is Huey Long?
This environmental crisis of the 1930s was explicitly NOT a cause of the 1929 Stock Market Crash.
What is the Dust Bowl?
FDR's informal direct radio talks to the American public explaining his administration's goals
What are "Fireside Chats"?
Charitable organizations provided food to unemployed and homeless Americans during the Depression through these lines
What are breadlines (or soup kitchens)?
Provide direct aid to the American People
What is relief?
This program proposed by Huey Long called for limiting personal wealth and giving every American family a guaranteed income.
What is Share Our Wealth?
As a direct result of stock market losses (greater than they could absorb), many financial institutions suffered this fate
What is being forced to close (bank failure)?
To halt bank runs and inspect financial stability, FDR's first priority was declaring this national emergency action
What is a Bank Holiday?
The major geographic region of the United States that suffered the most severe damage from the Dust Bowl
What is the mid-west?
Improve the economy and create government jobs in various industries
What is recovery?
This Catholic priest criticized FDR for not doing enough to help struggling Americans and used radio broadcasts to share his views.
Who is Father Charles Coughlin?
This 1920s economic trend of buying goods on credit and purchasing stocks on margin led to severe financial instability.
What is stock speculation / buying on credit?
What are people themselves, local and state governments, and charities?
Makeshift shantytowns/homeless areas that appeared across the country
What are Hoovervilles?
Create government regulations/policies so the Great Depression would never happen again
What is reform?
These critics believed FDR’s New Deal gave the federal government too much power and threatened free enterprise.
Who are conservative critics?
This major international conflict finally brought a complete end to the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
President Roosevelt famously reassured the nation in his Inaugural Address by declaring that this was "the only thing we have to fear"
What is "fear itself"?
The primary direction in which displaced Great Plains farming families migrated during the Dust Bowl crisis
What is West?
The government organization established under the New Deal to insure individual bank deposits and prevent future bank runs
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
FDR proposed adding more justices to this branch of government after it struck down some New Deal programs.
What is the Supreme Court?
The principle President Herbert Hoover originally clung to as the proper solution to the nation's economic troubles
How many terms did FDR serve? (What elections did he win?
What is rugged individualism?
What are 4? (1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944)