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He was president at the beginning of the Depression and was often blamed for it.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This agency put young, unmarried men to work in reforestation, building roads, developing parks, and soil conservation projects under the supervision of the army.
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This was a severe economic downturn that occurred worldwide during the 1930s.
What was the Great Depression?
Government-financed construction of public facilities.
What are public works?
This was made up of unemployed veterans of the American Expeditionary Force that came to Washington D.C. to ask for an early payment of the bonuses promised to them.
What was the Bonus Army?
He won the election of 1932 in a landslide victory with 472 electoral votes.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This was a program created to eliminate the relief doles. It employed almost anyone in almost any kind of job.
What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This was FDR’s program that tried to control the economy through government action rather than the free market.
What was the New Deal?
This pushed tariffs on foreign industrial and agricultural products to their highest level in US history.
What was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
These were areas of cities where people lived in cardboard shacks in parks and vacant lots during the Depression.
What were "Hoovervilles"?
As First Lady, she fought against racial discrimination be publicly befriending influential African Americans.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
This act attempted to organize guidelines for industries to increase employment, maintain wages, and reduce unwanted competition.
What was the National Recovery Act (NRA)?
This is a temporary closing of all banks. FDR declared one of these in 1933 after assuming office.
What is a bank holiday?
This was the name of Huey Long’s socio-economic plan.
What was the "Share Our Wealth" plan?
These were radio broadcasts that FDR used to influence public opinion in favor of his New Deal programs.
What were fireside chats?
He was a flamboyant, plain-spoken former governor of Louisiana who proposed to tax the rich and redistribute the wealth to the poor.
Who was Huey Long?
This agency undertook the extensive project to build dams along the Tennessee River that would provide navigation, flood control, and cheap electricity for the valley residents.
What was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This was the “crime of the century”.
What was the Lindbergh kidnapping?
This was a group composed primarily of college professors to whom FDR turned for advice in solving the nation’s economic problems.
What was the "brain trust"?
FDR’s plan to add six more justices to the Supreme Court. It never succeeded.
What was the court-packing plan?
He won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. This angered Adolf Hitler.
Who was Jesse Owens?
This act established a new method of subsidizing farm products and aided debt-ridden farmers in danger of losing their farms to foreclosure.
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
A German airship filled with hydrogen gas exploded as it attempted to land in Lakehurst, NJ after a transatlantic flight.
What was the Hindenburg disaster?
These were assistance programs that required the one receiving assistance to work in return for the aid.
What is work relief?
A term coined by a newspaper reporter to describe the area in the Great Plains affected by massive dust storms.
What was the "Dust Bowl"?