Vocab
Homeless person in a city
What is a Hobo?
U.S. president from 1928 to 1932
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This environmental program put 2.5 million unmarried men to work maintaining and restoring
forests, beaches, and parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Amendment that moved up the president inauguration from march to January
What is the 20th Amendment?
Senator who was an out spoken opponent of FDR.
Who is Huey P. Long?
The action of taking possession of a mortgaged property when the mortgagor fails to keep up their mortgage payments.
What is a Foreclosure?
President from 1933-1945
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
It used proceeds from a new tax to pay farmers not to raise specific crops and animals.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
This amendment was repealed Prohibition
What is The 21st Amendment
A group of people who showed opposition to the New Deal.
What is the American Liberty League?
concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.
What is the Hoover Dam?
The name of shanty towns during the great depression
What are Hoovervilles?
The decline in the industrial prices in 1930s caused business failures and unemployment.
What is the National Industrial recovery Act?
What are the 3 R's of the New Deal
What is relief, Reform, and recovery?
Spending more money than the government receives.
What is Deficit Spending?
The work of building such things as roads, schools, and reservoirs, carried out by the government for the community.
What is the Public Works?
By helping the wealthy and businesses, it was
believed that financial health would trickle down
to help people at the bottom
What is Trickle Down Economics?
French term meaning "Hands off"
What is Lassiez Faire?
A series of chats held by FDR.
What is Fireside Chats?
Idea that would guarantee annual income of at least $5,000 for every American
What is the Share our Wealth plan?
Act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and was signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.
What is the Smoot-Hawlet Tariff Act?
The plan for recovery to get American's back to work
A group of lawyers, professors, and business people that helped Roosevelt craft the New Deal
What is the "Brain Trust?"
Plan to put proponents in the supreme court.
What is Court Packing?
Was FDR's opponent in the 1936 election.
Who is Alf Landon? (Not to be confused with Ralph Kramden)