New Deal Programs
This program, known by its initials CCC, employed young men to work on environmental conservation projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
This term describes New Deal programs designed to provide immediate help to unemployed and homeless Americans.
What is relief?
The FDIC helped economic recovery by insuring bank deposits, which prevented these mass withdrawals.
What are bank runs?
The FDIC reformed banking by providing this type of government protection for deposits.
What is insurance?
This October 1929 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression when stock prices collapsed.
What is the Stock Market Crash (or Black Tuesday/Black Thursday)?
The TVA brought electricity and flood control to this impoverished region of the United States.
What is the Tennessee Valley?
This act was FDR's first major action, closing banks temporarily to restore public confidence in the banking system.
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
The Emergency Banking Act helped recovery by doing this to the banking system after the crisis.
What is stabilizing it (or reopening sound banks)?
The SEC was created to reform this by preventing financial fraud.
What is the stock market (or securities trading)?
These makeshift shantytowns where homeless Americans lived were named sarcastically after President Hoover.
What are Hoovervilles?
This program, abbreviated SSA, created a safety net for elderly and disabled Americans that still exists today.
What is the Social Security Act (or Social Security Administration)?
This New Deal agency, abbreviated WPA, provided relief by hiring unemployed Americans to build roads, bridges, and schools.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
The AAA attempted to help farmers recover by controlling this to raise farm prices.
What is agricultural production (or crop production)?
The Wagner Act reformed labor relations by protecting workers' rights to do these two things.
What are unionize and collectively bargain (accept either one)?
This environmental disaster in the Great Plains during the 1930s destroyed farmland and forced mass migration.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The WPA employed millions of Americans to build infrastructure and also funded artists, writers, and theater performers.
What is the Works Progress Administration (or Work Projects Administration)?
The NYA provided relief to young people through these two types of support.
What are job training and educational support (accept either one)?
The NIRA aimed to promote recovery by regulating these three aspects of industry.
What are industrial production, labor standards, and fair competition (accept any two)?
The Social Security Administration reformed the safety net by establishing these three types of insurance.
What are social security, unemployment, and disability insurance (accept any two)?
Unemployment reached approximately this shocking percentage at the worst point of the Great Depression.
What is 25% (accept 20-25%)?
This controversial program paid farmers to destroy crops and livestock to raise agricultural prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (or AAA)?
This program, abbreviated PWA, provided relief through employment on large-scale construction projects.
What is the Public Works Administration?
The TVA promoted economic recovery in the Tennessee Valley by providing these three benefits.
What are electricity, flood control, and economic development (accept any two)?
The Fair Labor Standards Act reformed working conditions by establishing these protections for workers.
What are minimum wage, maximum hours, or child labor laws (accept any)?
This 1932 incident damaged Hoover's reputation when he ordered the military to remove World War I veterans who were demanding early payment of their bonuses.
What is the Bonus Army (or Bonus March)?