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Hoover and the Crash
FDR
Great Depression
New Deal
New Deal
100
A situation in which the supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demand
What is overproduction?
100
Roosevelt's campaign slogan during the 1932 Presidential Election
What was "a new deal for the American People"
100
In 1932 this group protested in Washington and were fired upon by the federal government
What is the "bonus army"
100
FDR signed the Social Security Act in this year
What is 1935
100
This agency built dams to control flooding, provide cheap electricity and increase jobs in a poor rural area
What was Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
200
This date was also called "Black Tuesday"
What is October 29, 1929
200
finish this sentence "they are unanimous in their hate for me, and ___________________
What is I welcome their hatred
200
During the Depressions the most famous working woman in the country?
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
200
Money removed directly from workers paychecks was called
What is a payroll tax
200
This Nation Recovery Agency was determined to be _________ in 1935.
unconstitutional
300
Approximately 5,500 closed between 1930-1933
What is banks
300
This Guaranteed individual deposits
What was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
300
This turned 100 million acres of rich farmland into a wasteland.
What is the Dust Bowl
300
The right of a union to negotiate wages and benefits of all its members
What is collective bargaining
300
This act protects workers right to unionize.
What is the Wagner Act.
400
THE DAILY DOUBLE
What is 3% to 25%
400
In FDR's first hundred days of office he signed a record ____ pieces of new legislation
What was 15?
400
FDR told the Americans that it was safer to keep their money in a bank than ____________.
What was "under their mattress"
400
Name the benefits of Fair Labor Standards Act
What is setting of a 44 hour work week, minimum wages, time and 1/2 payment for overtime or end of child labor in some businesses
400
Union membership _________ during the 1930's
What was tripled
500
Hoover created this to fund critical businesses in 1932
What is Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
500
This federal agency sought to keep prices stable while boosting employment and buying power, later declared unconstitutional
What was the National Recovery Administration (NRA)
500
The Great Depression lasted from _______ to _________
What is 1929 to 1941
500
DAILY DOUBLE
What is deficit spending.
500
Name 4 provisions of the Social Security Act
What is Pensions for retirees, aid for dependent children in poverty, aid for the disabled, and unemployment insurance.