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Vocabulary
The Great Depression
FDR/NEW DEAL
FDR/NEW DEAL
Miscellaneous
100
FDR's plan to end the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
100
Neighborhoods of shacks built by the homeless were name after this president
What are Hoovervilles?
100
True or false, FDR declared a bank holiday that closed banks in the U.S. for several days.
What is true.
100
This agency put thousands of unemployed men back to work
WHat is the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC)
100
List an effect of the Great Depression on Latinos and African-Americans.
What is lower wages, higher unemployment, violence from whites who wanted their jobs?
200
A small piece of a business that anyone can buy or sell.
What is a stock?
200
The amount of people unemployed during the Great Depression.
What is 25% or one in four.
200
The name of the New Deal program that employed a lot of artists and writers.
What is the Works Progress Administration
200
This agency regulates the stock market.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission? (SEC)
200
What happenend to many Latinos during the Great Depression?
What is they were deported?
300
A period when manufacturing is down, unemployment is very high, and a lot of banks and businesses close down.
What is a depression?
300
Besides the help from the New Deal, what truly ended the Great Depression.
What is WWII?
300
The name of the agency that insured money in banks: up to $5,000 in the 1930's, up to $100,000 today.
What is the FDIC?
300
This agency paid people not to grow crops in order to raise crop prices
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Agency?
300
What did the Wagner act have to do with?
What are unions?
400
What was one cause of the Great Depression?
What is farmers producing more crops than could sell, buyinig on credit, stock market crash, overproduction of factory goods?
400
What was one of the goals of the New Deal?
What is provide relief to those who were suffering, help economy recover, initiate reforms in banking and stock exchange?
400
15 pieces of legislation were passed in this amount of FDR's first term.
What is 100 days?
500
What was the event that sent farmers to California due to drought, winds and poor farming practices.
What is the Dust Bowl?
500
Another cause of the Great Depression.
What is farmers producing more crops than could sell, buyinig on credit, stock market crash, overproduction of factory goods?
500
This agency put people back to work building dams on the Tennessee River
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
The act that created the FDIC was called.
What is the Glass-Stegall Act?
500
Besides providing people with retirement and pensions, what did the Social Security act do?
What is provide unemployment insurance and financial assistance to children and disabled?