Acts
Agencies
People of the Depression
Multi-Media
100
This Act created a Pension system for retirees
The Social Security Act of 1935
100
This Agency reported Martha Stewart's insider trading on the stock market
Securities and Exchange Commission
100
President who created the New Deal
FDR
100
What caused bank runs in the early 1930s? (Play until 1:20)
Loss of Confidence. (People saw others losing everything in the stock market crash, people over-relying on credit including stocks)
200
What did the Agricultural Adjustment Act do
Increase the Price of Crops by paying farmers to not on some of their land
200
This Administration insures loans to protect lenders if a borrower defaults.
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
200
President who created the RFC
Hoover
200
Where is this family affected by the Dust Bowl most likely moving to?
California
300
Why did The Emergency Banking Act of 1933 make banks close temporarily?
To give banks time to reorganize and to restore American's confidence in banks
300
This Act created an organization that created fertilizer plants. (This is not the only thing this organization did)
Tennessee Valley Authority Act
300
FDR used this man's economic philosophy when creating the New Deal
John Maynard Keynes (+300 if you can describe his economic theory/philosophy)
300
What is this Cartoon about? What is the issue with doing this?
FDR's Court Packing scheme. The Executive takes over the Judicial branch, and the next president could continue packing the court
400
What act allowed employees to join unions and collectively bargain for better wages and hours
Wagner Act
400
What is the RFC? Who Created the RFC? How is the RFC an example of trickle-down economics.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was created by President Hoover. The RFC is an example of trickle-down economics because the RFC gave loans to banks and businesses in hopes that the money would circulate down to working people.
400
Which Cabinet member is credited with creating Social Security
Frances Perkins
400
What Agency ensures that "your money is safer in a bank than under your mattress"
FDIC
500
Name the Act the GM is the president talking about and describe his argument against it.
"Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., General Motors president, summed up the industry’s basic argument thus: “The economic position of the U. S. has completely changed during the past two decades. We cannot sell unless we buy. Additional restrictions in the way of raising the height of the tariff wall are bound to have an adverse influence on our domestic prosperity through reducing our ability to produce. . . . The failure of the bill would have a helpful influence.”"
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Sloan is against the tariff because he expects retaliatory tariffs to restrict GM's ability to sell cars overseas and increase input costs.
500
This Agency paid artists during the depression
WPA
500
Who was the member of the Black Cabinet who said the New Deal created a "New Day" for African Americans
Mary McLeod Bethune
500
Which New Deal Agency does this video show? What did this Agency do?
The Civilian Conservation Corps. An Army like agency where young men would work on conservation projects. CCCers would plant trees, clear forests, dig irrigation ditches.