A temporary closing of all banks to prevent bank runs
What is a Bank Holiday
100
President that was in office form 1928-1932
Who is Herbert Hoover
100
What do historians usually attribute to the Great Depression
What is Crash of the Stock Market
100
Name of the shanty towns built by the homeless made from scrap materials
What are Hoovervilles
100
President that proposed the New Deal
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt
200
non-contributory transfer programs seeking to prevent the poor or those vulnerable to shocks and poverty from falling below a certain poverty level
What is Safety Net
200
President that was in office from 1932-1945
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt
200
The first forms of credit
What are Installment Plans
200
Name of the series of dust storms that rolled over America that cost thousands to abandon their homes and farms?
What is the Dust Bowl
200
What are the 3 R's
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform
300
When stocks increase price faster than normal
What is Bull Market
300
FDR Act that attempted to stabilize the economy because of the Great Depression
What is The Emergency Banking Relief Act
300
This was FDR Legislation intended to end the great depression
What is the New Deal
300
The name given to the refugee farm families from the South Plains who migrated to California in the 1930's
What are Oakies
300
Townshed Plan gave the government this idea
What is Social Security
400
More than 600 WHAT? failed each year.
What are Banks
400
What Act by FDR reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill of excess livestock
What is Agricultural Adjustment Administration
400
The event that brought America out of The Great Depression?
What is World War II
400
A migratory worker or homeless wanderer, often penniless
What is a transient/Hobo
400
Deal that tried to restore basic economic functions
(The 3 R's)
What is the "First New Deal"
500
The government practice of spending borrowed money rather than raising taxes
What is Deficit Spending
500
"Federal aid to the poor would make people depend too much on the government. So as a result he did not want to give federal relief to needy” Were Hoovers opinion on what?
What is Direct Federal Relief
500
A deflation in assets and commodity prices, dramatic drops in demand and credit, and distribution of trade were all what?
What are causes of The Great Depression
500
Government financed building program
What are Public Works
500
Deal that tried to improve people's lives such as providing work and welfare.