Taxed food processors and gave the money directly to farmers as a payment for not growing food. This decreased supply so price would go up.
What is Agricultural Adjustment Act
100
The day in which the stock market of the United States crashed
What is Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929
100
Starting on March 6, Roosevelt issued a proclamation closing all American Banks for four days until Congress could meet in special session to consider banking reform legislation. This created a general sense of relief and hope.
What is Bank Holiday
100
Was president during the stock market crash.
What is president Hoover
100
Permanent Agency set up to monitor stock market activity and ensure that no fraud or insider trading was taking place
What is Securities & Exchange Commission
200
Authorized the President of the United States to regulate industry and permit cartels and monopolies in an attempt to stimulate economic recovery, and established a national public works program.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act
200
A special session of Congress in 1933 in which the bulk of the New Deal programs were passes is known as the
What is First Hundred Days
200
Gave the president the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks in order to inflate the economy.
What is Emergency Banking Relief Act
200
This president centralized decision making in the white house and expanded the executive branch
What is FDR
200
Provided insurance to personal banking accounts up to $5,000. These assured people that their money was safe and secure.
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
300
Established and adminstered a system of industrial codes to control production, prices, labor relations, and trade practices
What is the National Recovery Administration
300
A drought that occurred during the Great Depression that laid to waste almost 100 percent of the food production in the United States.
What is the Dust Bowl
300
Created for the immediate relief of the severe unemployment problem rather than the long term recovery.
What is The Federal Emergency Relief Act
300
Blamed the severity of the depression on the international economic situation
What is Hoover
300
Created pension and insurance for the old-aged, the blind, the physically handicapped, delinquent children, and other dependents by taxing employees and employers
What is Social Security Administration
400
Congress created this in 1935 as an agency that gave jobs to people who needed them. They worked on bridges, roads, and buildings. They spent 11 billion dollars and gave almost 9 million people jobs.
What is Works Progress Administration
400
This government agency's failure to prevent widespread collapse of the nation’s banking system in the late 1920s and early 1930s, leading to severe decrease in the nation’s supply of money in circulation was a cause of The Great Depression
What is Federal Reserve
400
An agency that gave jobs to people who needed them. They worked on bridges, roads, and buildings. They spent 11 billion dollars and gave almost 9 million people jobs.
What is the Works Progress Administration
400
Passed the Agricultural Marketing Act
What is Hoover
400
Laws mandating proper soil maintenance to make sure that another dust bowl was avoided.
What is Soil Conservation Act
500
Gave 2.5 million poor citizens jobs and land. It brought cheap electric power, low-cost housing, cheap nitrates, and the restoration of eroded soil
What is Tennessee Valley Authority
500
Americans’ antiwar sentiments in the 1920s were reflected in
What is The Kellogg-Briand Pact
500
A public relief program that employed young men to work on projects that benefited the public and the environment.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps
500
billed himself as savior of capitalism
What is FDR
500
Established defined unjust labor practices, secured workers the right to bargain collectively, and established the National Labor Relations Board.