Causes of the Great Dep.
buying on credit creates _______
What is debt?
Places people could go to get a free meal
What are breadlines?
What are Fireside Chats?
The New Deal ___________ the power of the Federal Government.
What is INCREASED?
When you haven't paid your mortgage, the bank can take back your house
What is foreclosure?
Led to the stock market crash, taking out loans to buy stocks
What is over-speculation?
This hit an all time high of 25%
What is unemployment?
The 3 R's of the New Deal
What are Relief, Recovery, & Reform?
This New Deal Program is known for giving young men quick jobs that often deal with conserving natural resources
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Limited Presidents to TWO TERMS
What is the Twenty-Second Amendment?
October 29, 1929 is also known as
What is Black Tuesday?
Homeless camps people moved into during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
This New Deal Program created construction jobs to build public infrastructure
What is the Public Works Administration?
What is alphabet soup?
This graph gives us an accurate description of the value of the top 30 companies on the stock market.
Hint * we are able to see the exact day of the stock market crash*
What is the Dow Jones?
What is a tariff?
Name 3 causes of the Dust Bowl
What are destruction of prairie grass, drought, & overfarming?
Explain the full name and purpose of the SEC
What is the 'Securities & Exchange Commission' and it have the government the power to make rules for investors & businesses in the stock market?
What is the Social Security Administration & it provides financial support to old people, the unemployed, & disabled?
This tax on imports, passed by Hoover, destroyed international trade because other countries also raised their tariffs
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
The government does not regulate the economy
What is Laissez-Faire?
The forced deportation of Mexican American farmers to free up jobs for white farmers
What is Mexican Repatriation?
Give the full name of the FDIC & its significance
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation & it guarantees your bank deposits are safe?
Some New Deal Programs were deemed unconstitutional because _________________
What is they infringed on powers given to the states?
FDR attempted to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices from 9 to 15.
What is the Court Packing Scheme?