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Great Depression
From Bad to Worse
Happy Days are Here Again
Alphabet Soup
New Deal
100
Years the depression lasted
1929 - 1941
100
objective of most Americans
to survive
100
the "most unpopular man in America"
Hoover
100
CCC helped the environment
Civilian Conservation Corp
100
Roosevelt's confidence building radio addresses to the American people
fireside chats
200
October 24, 1929 "Black Tuesday"
stock market crash
200
it's what they called the shantytowns of homeless Americans
Hoovervilles
200
FDR's pledge to the American people
New Deal
200
TVA provided power
Tennessee Valley Authority
200
old age pension and insurance
social security
300
borrowing against future profits to pay for stocks today
margin buying
300
hardest hit of the extreme severe drought area of the mid west
Dust Bowl
300
putting Americans on government aid
welfare
300
WPA used labor to benefit all Americans
Works Progress Administration
300
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
FDR
400
Risky business transactions
speculation
400
men who traveled the country in search of work (usually by train)
hobo
400
this challenge to the authority of the U.S. was met by MacArthur before FDR was elected
Bonus Army
400
FDIC protects your money
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
400
FDR appoints judges sympathetic to New Deal
"court packing' deal
500
two causes of the great depression
crash, overproduction, underconsumption, easy credit, unequal dist. of wealth,
500
percentage of americans out of work in 1933
25%
500
FDR's main contribution to America's recovery
restored confidence
500
FHA lets people buy a home
Federal Housing Authority
500
two impacts of the New Deal
extended federal power (govt and pres.), welfare, confidence, conservation, deficit spending, concern for workers, faith in democracy