People
The democratic president who won the vote in 42 states in the 1932 presidential election
Who is FDR?
What are Hoovervilles?
The 21st Amendment repealed which unsuccessful policy of the 1920s?
What is Prohibition?
___ ____ refers to the day that the stock market crashed in 1929
What is Black Tuesday?
What were the 3 R's in FDR's New Deal?
What is relief, recovery, reform
World renowned entrepreneur credited with pioneering the automobile industry in the 1920s
Who is Henry Ford?
This movement involved millions of African Americans going from the South to other parts of the US to escape racism
What is the Great Migration?
The 1935 Act that provided monthly payments primarily to retirees, the disabled, and veterans
What is the Social Security Act?
The act of investing in stocks with money borrowed from a bank
What is Buying on Margin?
This program sought to develop dams for energy generation and agricultural relief during the Dust Bowl in Tennessee
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Muckraker who wrote The Jungle, exposing the horrible conditions of the Chicago meatpacking industry
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This disaster drove many farmers out of business and halted agricultural production in the US
What is the Dust Bowl?
1930 Act that raised global tariffs by 20%, backfired and caused a decline in global trade
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
The act of buying or selling stocks based on short-term predictions of future price movements (very dangerous)
What is Speculation?
This program was created to employ over 3 million young Americans to conserve America's resources and improve its infrastructure (Ex. Roosevelt's Tree Army)
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Reverend, radical political activist known for his anti-semitic views and attacks on FDR's New Deal
Who is Father Coughlin?
This political group advocates for the abolition of private property, state owned economy, and a classless society
What is the Communist Party?
1932 Act passed by Pres. Hoover to try to boost the economy by giving states millions in loans (failed)
What is the Relief and Reconstruction Act?
This program ensured that Americans' invested money would be protected in banks (up to $250,000)
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
Program designed to boost the U.S. economy during the Great Depression by encouraging industrial growth, establishing fair competition codes, and creating public work projects (Deemed unconstitutional in 1935)
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA)?
Explain the reasons why FDR overwhelmingly won the presidency
Promises of radical reform, Hoover's failed presidency, democrat, etc.
Explain why unemployment had such a large social impact after 1929.
no income destroyed families, caused extreme poverty, increased depression, etc
Explain why there was so much opposition to the New Deal?
too radical, not radical enough, took a long time to work
Explain how mass production and oversupply helped cause the Great Depression
overproduction, underconsumption, surplus of goods
Explain the significance of the ‘Brain Trust’
Intellectuals and academics shaped the New Deal