Causes and Factors
Overproduction
Farmers in the Great Plains who moved west to California during the Dust Bowl were known as what?
Okies
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Deficit Spending is when the government spends more money than it has, purposefully causing _______, in the hopes that the turn-around will be worth it.
Debt
Who was George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury, who instituted the First Bank of the US and wrote many of The Federalist Papers?
Alexander Hamilton
This was the year that Black Tuesday saw the stock market crash.
1929
Name one of the two factors that caused the Dust Bowl
Overfarming and Drought
This first lady revolutionized the position, by writing a weekly newspaper column and traveling the country speaking on behalf of the New Deal
Eleanor Roosevelt
The CCC and the PWA combined to provide over 5 million jobs building roads, dams, hospitals, and parks. What does either of those two things stand for?
Civilian Conservation Corps
Public Works Administration
After becoming infamous during Bleeding Kansas, this man's raid on Harper's Ferry was one of the final sparks that started the Civil War
John Brown
The lack of banks for investment, the stock market crash, and lack of spending led to the closure of 90,000 _______ by 1933.
Businesses
Hoovers initial plan of "Rugged Individualism" meant that the government would essentially do what to help Americans directly?
Nothing
The "Three R's" of the New Deal programs were what?
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Give one of the two main criticisms of FDRs New Deal
It cost a lot of money
It didn't solve the Great Depression
The Treaty of Paris, 1763, ended what conflict?
French & Indian War