Policy
While FDR gets a lot of credit for the New Deal, who/what actually implemented the policies?
Congress
Who defeated Hoover in the 1932 presidential election?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
People would gather at their banks trying to withdrawal all their money.
Bank Runs/ Bank Rushes
What was it called when people would put down 10% of a stocks cost, receive a loan for the remaining 90%, and hope to sell the stock at enough of a profit that they pay off the loan and have money left over?
Buying on margin
The New Deal contained three R's, what are they?
Relief, Recovery, Reform
J. Edgar Hoover led anti-communist raids after this person was attacked with a bomb left on their porch.
Attorney General Mitchell A. Palmer
This is the event many people correlate with the Great Depression.
1929 Stock Market Crash
What is instalment buying?
When someone puts a down payment on an item and pays off the remaining debt in monthly increments.
Why were sharecroppers excluded from the benefits of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
They did not own the land they farmed.
Who was president of the United States during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
Environmental disaster that worsened the effects of the Great Depression in the Midwest.
Dust Bowl
Credit and instalment buying fueled what in the 1920's?
Consumerism
This was passed in 1935, is still in place today, helps people in retirement.
Social Security
Marcus Garvey, W.E.B Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington were all what?
Early Civil Rights Leaders
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
19th amendment
President Hoover did not want people to rely on what for support?
The federal government
What did the Public Works Administration do?
Created jobs by hiring people to work on government projects like bridges, roads, and dams.
Which presidents was the first to appoint a female to a cabinet position in the White House?
FDR
Period of time when it was illegal to sell or produce alcohol.
Prohibition
1929 stock market crash, Weak banking system, Overproduction, Overuse of credit, are all causes of what?
The Great Depression