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Who did America blame for the Great Depression?
President Herbert Hoover
What is it called when consumers agree to buy now and pay later for purchases?
credit
Which industry suffered the most during the time of the Great Depression?
agriculture
What was Franklin Roosevelt's program to relieve the problems of the Great Depression, focusing on relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform?
The New Deal
What revived public confidence in banks, since customers now had greater faith that the open banks were in good financial shape?
Emergency Banking Relief Act
President that led the United States during the major crises of the Great Depression and World War ll
(full name)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What was the most visible symbol of a prosperous American economy?
The stock market
During the Great Depression, the government would buy surplus crops at guaranteed prices and sell them on the world market. What is the term for this type of federal intervention?
price supports
President Roosevelt produced radio talks about issues of public concern, explaining in clear, simple language his New Deal measures. What were these radio talks known as?
fireside chats
What raised crop prices by lowering production; paid farmers to leave a certain amount of land unseeded?
Agricultural Adjustment Act
America's first female cabinet member; Secretary of Labor
Francis Perkins
What is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services, which occurred during the time of the Great Depression?
deflation
TRUE OR FALSE: One of the main causes of the Great Depression was a crisis in the farm sector.
TRUE
Who believed that the New Deal took more of the people's money in taxes and impaired American freedom through increased government regulations. They also believed that the policies made the government too large and powerful?
conservatives
What put young unemployed men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in erosion-control and flood-control projects?
Civilian Conservation Corps
Commissioner of Indian Affairs; helped create the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
John Collier
What is a period of rising stock prices known as?
Who wandered the country, hitching rides on railroad boxcars and sleeping under bridges?
hoboes
What does the word autonomy mean?
the right to self government
What provided the unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, the arts, and other fields?
Advocate and close friend to Eleanor Roosevelt; they served as Director of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Administration and led the Black Cabinet of unofficial African American advisors
Mary McLeod Bethune
What does it mean when a bank is insolvent?
they are unable to pay their debts
When do deficiency notices go out?
Thursday 2/8
President Roosevelt faced rising pressure from Congress to stop what kind of spending on New Deal programs?
deficit spending
What helped to restore some reservation lands to tribal ownership. The act led to changes in the economic, cultural, and political status of Native Americans?
Indian Reorganization Act