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The Coming of the Depression/The Depression
FDR and the Framing of the New Deal
Popular Discontent and the Turn to the Left
The Stalemated Second Term
Fun Numbers
100
This was the age of unparalleled prosperity
What is the 20s?
100
This is the most defined part of FDR that the majority of Americans supported
What is he was not Hoover
100
This became clear about the pace of the recovery after the first hundred days of the New Deal
What is the recovery was occurring slowly
100
This political party lost 70 seats in the house and several in the senate in 1938
What is the Democratic Party?
100
These are the years of the Depression
What is 1929-1939?
200
This group of workers were hit especially hard by the downturn
What are farmers?
200
These are the dates of the First New Deal
What is 1933-1934?
200
This is the Roosevelt Administration's solution to the ongoing problems:
What is the Second New Deal?
200
The European war that began in 1937 gave this to Roosevelt in the 1938 election
What is a political advantage?
200
This is the number of Americans unemployed in 1932
What is 12 million?
300
Complete this sentence: the Great Depression and the market crash are _______
What is "not the same"?
300
After FDR closed all the banks in 1933 he requested this act to be passed by Congress
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
300
This launched the American welfare state, establishing our present national system of unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, and aid for special needy groups like the crippled, the blind, the deaf, and dependent children.
What is Social Security Act of 1935?
300
This is the action that Roosevelt took in response to the conflict that the US Supreme Court created during his presidency
What is passed a bill authorizing him to appoint a new Justice for each one presently serving past the age of 80?
300
This percentage showed the growth of the gross national product between 1921 and 1929
What is 27%
400
These were areas that people who lost their mortgages and were driven into the streets went
What is Hooverville?
400
This was the keystone of the New Deal's agricultural program
What is Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?
400
This was the most controversial of all the 1935 measures
What is the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act)?
400
This made control shift from previous majorities to an alliance of Republicans and conservative southern Democrats
What is the 1938 Congressional Elections?
400
This date is known as Black Thursday
What is October 24, 1929?
500
This is the main failure of Hoover
What is "his attachment to the Orthodox beliefs of that time and not from a lack of concern or ability"?
500
These are the mechanisms that the NIRA put into place to restore prosperity
What is imposing controls over industrial outputs and prices?
500
Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes,and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt were strong supporters of which movement
What is the Equal Rights Movement?
500
This abruptly halted the partial recovery achieved from 1933-1937
What is the severe downturn in the winter of 1937-1938?
500
This was the year of the high-water mark of the New Deal
What is 1936?