New Deal Programs
The Agricultural Adjustment Act paid who to leave portions of their land empty?
Who are farmers
What event is often credited with the formal start of The Great Depression?
What is the stock market crash of 1929
What was the transportation that changed American society?
What is the automoblie
Government public works project that protects cities and farms, generates cheap electricity to supply power to homes and industry, and providing work for thousands who desperately needed jobs.
What is the Hoover Dam
Amendment prohibiting the sale, transportation, and storage of alcohol?
What is the 18th amendment
In FDR's Relief, Recovery, and Reform, what does Recovery provide?
What are jobs
Purchasing a stock with borrowed money.
What is buying on margin
What new manufacturing process allowed for mass production of luxury items?
What is the assembly line
The process of purchasing High Risk High Reward stocks
What is stock speculation
Economic system that pushed government spending to stimulate the economy.
What is Keynesian Economics
What program established a minimum wage and overtime pay?
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act
Why were banks shutting down?
Shutting down due to people not being able to pay back their loans and the banks' financial losses due to investments
What group suffered a economic depression after WW1 due to European countries buying less American goods?
Who are farmers
This dropped significantly once people hit their credit limit
What is spending
What did Roosevelt want to do to the Supreme Court?
What was FDR commonly labeled by his critiques?
What is a socialist or fascists
During The Great Depression, what did the Federal reserve do to the U.S. money supply?
What is decrease
What did the Harlem Renaissance do for African American artists and musicians?
What is spread appreciation for African American arts and celebrated African American pride. Also slowly worked to tear down the racial stereotypes.
Areas where homeless families set up their make-shift shelter
Who did the New Deal discriminate?
Who are African Americans and Women
This New Deal program built dams
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority
One of the highest American tariffs that brought the Trans Atlantic trade grind to a halt.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1930
Who are women who pushed the acceptable moral lines established for women by society?
Who are flappers
Farmers who left during the Dust Bowl and went to California.
Who are Oakies
What percent of African Americans were unemployed during the Great Deppression
48%