People
led the New Deal
Who is FDR? (Did you know he is from Hyde Park?)
Worst period of Economic recession in American History
What is the Great Depression?
FDR's method of using the radio to communicate his New Deal plans to Americans.
What is a 'Fireside Chat'?
What is the Social Security Act?
people waited on these lines for food (mostly soup).
What is a Bread Line?
First President during the Great Depression
Who was Herb Hoover
collapse of stock market in 1929
What is the Great Stock Market Crash?
the economic theory that lower taxes on business and the highest earners will create capital for investment and the purchase of goods, which will lead to increase demand for new jobs, and then money will be available for the lower working class.
What is 'Trickledown Economics'?
Law that set minumum wage and maximum work hours.
What is Fair Labor Standards Act?
Provided jobs through federal funding to boost economy and job market during the depression.
What is the Public Works Administration?
Migrants from the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl that left to the West Coast
What is an Okie?
Huge giant dust storm
What is the Dust Bowl?
government practice of spending more money than it takes in from taxes and other revenues.
What is 'Deficit Spending'?
legally protected collective bargaining
What is the Wagner Act?
guaranteed individual bank deposits.
What is the FDIC
First lady and social/political advocate
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
group of WW1 veterans seeking their army bonus and were met with violence from military in D.C
What is the Bonus Army?
process by which the government injects money into the economy to stimulate job growth, production, and consumer spending
What is 'Pump Priming'?
An act for agricultural regulation to avoid overproduction and underconsumption.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
had authority to set prices, minimum wages, and maximum hours within certain industries
What is the National Recovery Administration?
Who is John Steinbeck?
What is the Bank holiday?
belief held by Herb Hoover that each individual should have the initiative to help themselves out. (not the role of the federal government to provide economic support)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Double Jeopardy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FDR's request to congress to pass laws in order to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices. Deemed unconstitutional.
What is the "Court Packing Plan"?
Has the authority to regulate stock exchanges
What is the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)?