Life During the GD
Identify one of the reasons for the Dust Bowl
What is over-plowing of the same land, severe drought in the Midwest, windy conditions and lack of ground cover
What is reform, relief, and recovery?
In many communities, these sprawling neighborhoods of shacks sprang up on the outskirts of town or in public parks to house the newly homeless.
What are Hoovervilles?
This is the name that FDR gave to his programs to bring America out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
These vagrants hopped trains to travel from town to town in search of work.
What are hobos?
Where the Dust Bowl was most severe
What are the Great Plains?
This program, part of FDR's Second New Deal & still in existence today, provides a pension, or guaranteed, regular payments, for many people 65 and older.
Many people bought stocks by guessing or ______.
What is speculation?
In contrast to Hoover, Roosevelt had the basic faith in the ability of the __________ to solve economic and social problems and to help people in need.
What is government?
This New Deal program created jobs by building scores of dams throughout Tennessee and its neighboring states.
What is the TVA?
President during the beginning of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
Who is Herbert Hoover
To pay for his New Deal programs, Roosevelt sometimes had to do this.
What is deficit spending?
When did the stock market crash?
What is October 29th, 1929?
During his first 100 Days, Roosevelt issued an executive order doing this in order to prevent a run on banks.
What is closing all the banks in a "bank holiday"?
A long period of rising stock
What is a bull market?
People desperate for something to eat often went to these (Al Capone even opened one in Chicago)
What are soup kitchens?
After the U.S. Supreme Court declared the NRA and AAA unconstitutional, FDR attempted to do this
What is court-packing?
During the Great Depression (before the FDIC) when a bank collapsed what happened to your money?
What is you generally lost it all.
FDR frequently gave these over the radio to inform citizens and tell them about his programs to bring America out of the Great Depression.
What are fireside chats?
What is Schechter Poultry vs. United States?
What is the stock market crash, banks failing, unemployment, loss of export sales, adn uneven distribution of wealth?
This group of people thought that FDR had not done enough for the American people.
Who are liberals?
Hoover did not want the government to create many new jobs because that would mean increased government ____________?
What is government spending?
Created in 1934, this still serves as a government watchdog over the nation’s stock market.
What is the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)?
To speak with President Hoover about receiving bonuses, which were promised to WWI veterans in 1945, earlier than decided on.
What are the Bonus Marchers?