Great Depression
What is the term for individuals borrowing money to buy stocks?
Define eugenics movement.
early 20th century movement that wants to make the human gene pool better by encouraging the best members of a species to reproduce and not the "inferior"
Who were the two presidents during the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Provide 3 causes of the Great Depression.
overproduction in agriculture/manufacturing, speculation buying, unregulated banks, lassiez-faire economy
What was Lewis Terman's intelligence test called?
Standford-Binet IQ Test
Explain both approaches that the presidents brought to the Great Depression.
Hoover - Rugged Individualism - Americans are tough, if they believe in self and private charities they will get out of this
FDR - Forgotten Man - gov should help the people out of tough times esp since they have been forgotten about
Was the term used to describe the type of economics that focuses on increasing overall market demand by providing employment temporarily through government spending?
demand-side economics
Tennessee's Butler Act
What is the Congress of Industrial Organizations?
the name of the reorganization committee in 1939 after the Committee of Industrial Organization in 1935 to increase rights of workers