Great Crash
A growing consumer culture in the US led to this new financial system
What is buying on credit?
Unemployment rate at the height of the Great Depression
What is 25%?
FDR was able to pass a vast amount of policy in his first ___ days.
What is 100 days?
This agency was FDR's personal favorite and built National Park infrastructure
What is the CCC?
Who is Huey Long?
18th Amendment
What is Prohibition?
Economic ideology that conservative Republicans practiced.
What is Laissez-faire?
FDR's wife who had a significant impact on developing his political ideology and shaping the role of the First Lady as a political figure.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Agency providing rural power that inspired the Time Variance Authority.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Controversial proposed action from Roosevelt towards the judiciary system
What is Pack the Courts!
Stock Market strategy that built a house of cards between both private individuals and banks.
What is buying on margin?
The name for providing a stimulus for the economy, that Hoover failed to do.
What is Pump Priming?
RRR
What is Relief, Recovery, Reform?
Agency that supported everything from large public works projects to murals in libraries and post offices.
What is the WPA?
The Old Age Pensions Act from Francis Townsend was a direct competitor to this Act pushed by FDR
What is the Social Security Act?
Worse than inflation..
What is DEFLATION?
Act from Hoover meant to protect American business, that backfired by crippling the economy even more.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act 1930?
Political alliance between groups to support FDR and progressive policies with lasting impacts past the 1930's
What is the Roosevelt Coalition?
This agency was criticized by some liberals to be a fascist slave program.
What is the NRA?
Who are the Southern Democrats?
Incredibly inflexible monetary system unable to deal with global economic crisis
What is the Gold Standard?
A group of military veterans marched on Washington to claim this ___. Hoover used the Army to drive them out, turning public opinion against him even more.
What are War Bonuses from WWI?
While the First New Deal was focused on the 3 R's, the Second New Deal was...
What is focused on Security, Regulation, and planned Economic Development.
Controversial agency that gave the government power to set food prices and production.
What is the AAA?
Supreme Court case that for all intents and purposes killed the NRA
What is the Sick Chicken case? (Poultry Corp vs. United States)