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Causes of the Great Depression
Responses to the Great Depression
The Economics of the Great Depression
New Deal Programs
Miskalayneus
100
This war caused destroyed European industrial production which helped American industry thrive in the 1920's.
What is World War I?
100
This president believed that the federal government should not be involved in direct aid to people who were unemployed.
What is Herbert Hoover
100
This economic indicator went to 25% at the height of the Great Depression.
What is the unemployment rate?
100
These are the 3 "R"'s of the New Deal programs.
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform
100
This was the environmental calamity that destroyed agricultural production in the Midwest.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
This is a major cause of agricultural economic problems.
What is overproduction?
200
FDR used these types of speeches to calm fears and give people hope.
What are Fireside Chats?
200
Economists generally agree that this ended the Great Depression, not the New Deal?
What is World War II?
200
This agency provided old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Administration
200
This was the election in which Hoover was defeated by Roosevelt.
What is the election of 1932?
300
In the 1920's, demand was increased when consumers were able to use these kinds of plans to buy goods.
What are Installment Plans
300
When demand plummeted in the early days of the Great Depression, this is what Hoover asked leaders of Big Business to avoid.
What is laying off workers?
300
Many people who lost their homes early in the Great Depression lived in these derisively named shanty towns.
What are Hoovervilles?
300
This agency provided employment to young men who would maintain the national parks and plant trees for $1 per day.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps
300
This public works project was responsible for electrifying the Southeastern United States.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
400
Nations enacted these laws in order to protect their industries, but they usually backfire because they end up reducing global trade.
What are tariffs?
400
This agency was created to increase confidence in banks.
What is the FDIC?
400
FDR believed that this economic element needed to be increased in order to bring the economy back to good health.
What is Demand?
400
This law set codes of conduct for manufacturing goods along with protecting the right for workers to organize.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act
400
This law created the National Labor Relations Board.
What is the Wagner Act?
500
This is the name for the index of stocks that is used to measure the health of the stock market.
What is the Dow Jones Average
500
FDR pushed for the repeal of this Amendment to help raise revenue from taxes.
What is 21st Amendment?
500
This action by FDR in 1937 caused a recession.
What is Slashing New Deal Programs?
500
This agency regulates the buying and selling of stocks.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
500
This Louisiana politician called for a "Share-The-Wealth" Tax and a minimum level of wealth for all Americans.
Who is Huey Long?