Causes
The day the stock market crashed in October of 1929
Black Tuesday
Makeshift shantytowns created by the homeless and unemployed
Hoovervilles
Fireside Chats
During his First 100 Days, FDR focused on regulating these institutions
banks
The term used for the droughts and dust storms that ravaged the Great Plains
Dust Bowl
People bought products they wanted this way accumulating debt
credit
Believed in this kind of approach at the start of the Great Depression
hands-off or laissez faire
She connected with the public and set a precedent of increased involvement in social and political affairs
Eleanor Roosevelt
Gave Native Americans economic assistance and greater control over their own affairs
Indian New Deal
WWI veterans that march to DC to demand their bonuses
Bonus Army
Hawley-Smoot tariff
Belief that reducing the suffering of individuals should come from state and local governments
localism
Popular critic of the New Deal, Governor of Louisiana
Huey Long
This program provided old age benefits, unemployment benefits, benefits for work related injuries and more
Social Security Act
Negotiation of wages and other employment benefits organized by a group of employees
collective bargaining
The first people to suffer through the 1920s and more into the 1930s
farmers
Before becoming president he worked under President Harding and President Coolidge as
Secretary of Commerce
FDR increased the number of Supreme Court justices from 9 to 15 in hopes to get his New Deal policies passed
court-packing
The government offered subsidies to farmers to limit crop production and raise prices
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Group of unofficial advisors composed of African American leaders to advise the president on public policies
Black Cabinet
This economist argued the lack of government interference caused the Great Depression
John Meynard Keynes
Idea that tax cuts for big business and high income earners would get money to trickle down and benefit low income families
trickle-down economics
Black Cabinet member and founder of Bethune Cookman College
Mary McLeod Bethune
Program that used $5 billion to create new jobs such as building highways, dredging rivers and harbors, and promoting soil and water conservation
Works Progress Administration
Photographer known for her portraits of displaced farmers and others suffering economic hardships
Dorothea Lange