Why so sad?
Too many goods, too few consumers
Overproduction
What happened to birth rates during the Great Depression?
Birth rates fell
A right-wing criticism of the New Deal would be:
Homeless encampments get this name during the depression
Hoovervilles
As stock prices fell, the US entered this sleepy kind of market
bear
Call me Stevie Nicks because I won the election of 1932 in a 'landslide'
FDR
To lessen poverty in retirement, THIS was created and is a lasting legacy
Social Security (Act)
John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath describes this environmental situation
The Dust Bowl
Day that stock prices fell and the stock market crashed
Black Tuesday
Time period when Congress passed a record number of bills to aid the economic recovery
First 100 Days
Natural disaster that killed 84 people in PA?
The Great Flood of 1936
This ended the policy of forced assimilation for indigenous Americans
Indian New Deal
President Hoover called on charities to assist those in need, instead of the government through a process he called "___________________"
Voluntary Cooperation
The government paid farmers not to plant- what is the name of this law?
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
What was FDR's plan for the Supreme Court?
pack the court- new justice for every justice over 70
A 'radical' Senator from Louisiana who believed in wealth redistribution
Huey Long
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
List two programs discussed that created jobs for the needy
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
How was the Second New Deal different than the First
Second- social and economic reforms
Hoover- gave gov. loans to failing banks and businesses under this Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)