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FDR's plan to end the Great Depression

What is the New Deal?

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Hoovervilles

Neighborhoods of shacks built by the homeless

100

TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority: New Deal program that built dams to control flooding and produce cheap electric power

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Wagner Act


also known as the National Labor Relations Act; granted rights to unions; allowed collective bargaining

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An important novel that brought attention to the hardships of farmers (and the author!)

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

200

A small piece of a business that anyone can buy or sell.

What is a stock?

200

This took place in 1929 and is considered the start of the Great Depression

Black Tuesday (or Thursday)
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This program, part of FDR's Second New Deal & still in existence today, provides a pension, or guaranteed, regular payments, for many people 65 and older.

SSA, or Social Security Act

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Court packing

Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.

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the four day period that allowed the government to inspect banks to see if they were healthy enough to reopen.


What is the banking holiday.

300

A period when manufacturing is down, unemployment is very high, and a lot of banks and businesses close down.

What is a depression?

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What truly ended the Great Depression?

World War II
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FLSA

1938 law that set a minimum wage, a maximum workweek of 44 hours, and outlawed child labor

300

100 Days


Period from FDR's inauguration in March 1933 through the following June. During this time, Roosevelt pushed program after program through Congress in an effort to provide economic relief and recovery.

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's technique to use the Radio to speak to the American people

Fireside Chats
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When you borrow money in order to buy more stock

Buying on Margin
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Name TWO causes of the Great Depression

What is farmers producing more crops than could sell, buying on credit, stock market crash, overproduction of factory goods?

400

it authorized government inspection of banks and allowed sound banks to reopen. 

Emergency Banking Relief Act was


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Who were the migrant workers, AND how did the population of migrant workers change because of the Great Depression?
People who moved from job to job, sometimes across the country.  They would often pick fruit or vegetables on farms, and the job was long and difficult.  Before the Great Depression, migrant workers were mostly Mexican or Filipino.  During and after the Great Depression, many white farmers who lost their farms because of the Dust Bowl became migrant workers.
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Second New Deal

Roosevelt proposed a new round of programs and legislation in 1935, after he had been in office for a while.  He wanted to be re-elected, and some people felt the recovery was taking too long.

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This term describes the event that sent farmers to California due to drought, winds and poor farming practices

the Dust Bowl
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Bonus Army

A group of almost 20,000 World War I veterans who were hard-hit victims of the depression, who wanted what the government owed them for their services and "saving" democracy.

500

Name and EXPLAIN each of the 3R's

relief for the poor and jobless recovery of the economy reform of the nation’s financial system to safeguard against future depressions.  Relief, Recovery, and Reform

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What are subsidies, AND who received them during the Great Depression?

authorized the government to make payments to farmers who reduced plantings of soil-depleting crops -- thereby achieving crop reduction through soil conservation practices.

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work relief

programs that gave needy people government jobs