The Great Depression
25.1
25.1
Severe economic crisis
What is the Great Depression?
FDR's "Eyes and Ears"?
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Environmental disaster of the Great Plains
What is The Dust Bowl?
Raised tax rates of wealthy people and corporations
What is the Revenue Act?
CCC
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Aid for the needy
What is relief?
Laws passed during the 'Hundred Days'
What is the New Deal?
Destination of many migrant farmers
What is California?
A set of bolder reforms introduced after the New Deal
What is the Second New Deal?
FDIC
1930's Shantytowns
What are "Hoovervilles"?
Disease FDR was stricken by in the early 1920s
What is Polio?
First woman to serve in the cabinet
Who is Francis Perkins?
Taxed workers and employers to provide a pension to retired individuals
What is the Social Security Act?
PWA
What is the Public Works Administration?
October 24th, 1929
What is Black Thursday?
New York's Lincoln Tunnel
Fort Knox
Schools
Libraries
Dams
Roads
Shipyards
Hospitals
What are PWA Projects?
Women working at home would do these three things to save money
What is sew their own clothes, bake their own bread, and can their own vegetables?
While there were individual critics of FDR's administration, FDR relied on this early in his presidency which later became his and his policies largest opposition.
What is 'The Business World'?
What are Business Leaders?
NAACP
What is the National Association for the advancement of Coloured Peoples?
Jobless WWI veterans who marched on the White House
What is the Bonus Army?
Arguably the boldest program of the New Deal, this provided affordable hydro-electricy to those living in the Tennessee River Valley?
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)?
Four well known 1930-1940 Films
What are Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Wizard of Oz, The Grapes of Wrath, and Gone With the Wind?
FDR's plan to add six justices
What is the 'Court Packing Plan'?
FLSA
What is the Fair Labour Standards Act?