Causes of the Great Depression
Many people lost all of their money because of this event. Considered the beginning of the Great depression (1929)
What is the stock market crash
The name given to World War I veterans who protested for their bonuses in Washington DC.
What is the Bonus Army
FDR was famously physically disabled by this disease in the 1920's.
What is Polio
This was the New Deal program to conserve the natural world
What was the CCC
Who was FDR's wife
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt
What happened to the US after the stock market crash?
Many people went bankrupt after losing their money due to investing in stocks. (The bank ran out of money)
This was a famous name given to the homeless cities that popped up across the country in the early days of the Depression.
What are "Hoovervilles"
FDR was the first president to make use of this technology which boosted his popularity
what is the Radio
This was the government's effort to regulate American agriculture it generated a lot of controversy.
What was the AAA
What was the percentage of unemployment during the Great Depression
What is 24.9%
This President started public work projects to create jobs, however, his efforts were viewed as wasteful government spending and it ultimately didn't help the Great depression
Who is Herbert Hoover
The famous name given to a drought that affected many farmers that lead to the great depression
what is "dust bowl"
What was the name of his radio broadcasts were he spoke to all America like they were simply his friends
What was "Fireside chats"
This agency issues you numbers that is a unique identifier to access government benefits and services just for you
What is the SSA
What happened to the immigrants during the Great Depression
With the scarcity of jobs many immigrants were deported back to their own countries, free of charge.
What is Dust Bowl
a term to describe the drought-affected south central United States in the aftermath of horrific dust storms.
This act raised taxes on foreign goods; it was one of Hoover's main responses to the Depression
What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
This was the most famous quote of FDR's first presidential speech to the American people.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!"
The new Name for the Emergency Relief Act (Hoover) then replaced by Works Progress Administration, its main goal was to alleviate household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government. Pays local and state governments to hire people to work without any training.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Name one reason Hoover lost the elections.
1.The Decline in Republicanism
2.Economic factors (Wall street crash and great depression)
3. Roosevelts promises
What is credit and how was it a cause of the Great depression
Everyone had been buying stocks on credit and not using real money. When people and banks started asking for the money they had loaned to be paid, no one had enough money
This was the name given to a series of programs where FDR tried to expand the power of the government to fight the Depression.
What was the New Deal?
How many candidates did FDR go against for Presidency?
What is "four"
Public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, young men from relief families as part of the New Deal.
what is the CCC
What are pack horse librarians
During the Great Depression, pack horse librarians were librarians who would ride horses to deliver library books to children