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Vocabulary
Hoover and the Crash
Roosevelt and The New Deal
Life in the Great Depression
Legacy of the New Deal
100
A situation in which the supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demand.
What is overproduction?
100
October 29, 1929.
What is the day that the Stock Market crashed?
100
Retirement Payments.
What is a pension?
100
Female salesclerks and secretaries faced little competition from men. In addition, such jobs were less likely to disappear than the factory jobs many men held.
What were two advantages that working women had during the Depression?
100
when workers stay in a factory but stop production.
What is a sit-down strike?
200
Extra payment.
What is bonus?
200
Hoover's advisers considered the Depression a_____________ ____________ and recommended doing _______________.
What is a temporary setback and nothing?
200
Economic Recovery, Relief for the jobless, and reforms to prevent future depressions. The three r's.
What were the three main purposes of the New Deal?
200
They often had to toil for low wages in harsh conditions. Also, many were deported.
What were some of the problems the Mexican immigrants faced.
200
The right of a union to negotiate wages and benefits for all of its members.
What is collective bargaining?
300
Roosevelt would sit and talk to the country over a radio to comfort them on the banking crisis and Depression.
What are fireside chats?
300
How much money every WWI veteran would receive in 1945 for their service. They demanded immediate payment and formed the________________ ___________.
What is $1,000 and The Bonus Army?
300
FDR was stricken with __________ and his _________ were paralyzed.
What is Polio and legs?
300
John Collier.
Who was the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under FDR?
300
Head of the United Mine workers and formed the Committee for Industrial Organization, later renamed the Congress of Industrial Organization.
Who was John L. Lewis?
400
Bankruptcy and Default.
What is a financial failure caused by a company's inability to pay off its debts? What is a failure to repay loans?
400
Many fathers left their homes for work, many children suffered lifelong health problems, and their education suffered.
What are the main impacts on the family of the Depression?
400
The day after FDR took office he declared this, a four day closing of the nation's bank.
What is a bank holiday?
400
FDR failed to support an anti-lynching bill
Why FDR decided to create a mixed record?
400
Payroll Tax
What is a tax that removes money directly from workers' paychecks?
500
Migrant workers.
What are people who travel from farm to farm picking crops?
500
Between ______ and 1933, the unemployment rate skyrocketed from 3% to _____%. Nationwide some __ million people were unemployed.
What is 1929, 25%, and 13 million?
500
Describe Huey Long, Dr. Townsend, and Father Coughlin.
What is Huey Long- the Louisiana senator who proposed that the government tax the rich and distribute it to the poor? Dr. Townsend- called for a system of government pensions? Fr. Coughlin- a catholic priest who called on the government to take over the banks?
500
In __________ Eleanor Roosevelt logged ________________ miles travelling across the country answering and listening to people.
What is 1933 and 40,000?
500
The Benefits of Social Security
What is Old- Age insurance provided pensions for elderly people? Aid to Dependent Children helped families whose fathers were dead, unemployed or not living at home and had dependent Children? Also helped families with disabilities?