Great Depression
What was the spark of the Great Depression?
The stock market crash
What area of the country did the Dust Bowl affect?
The Great Plains
President who created the "New Deal?"
Franklin Roosevelt
What was the "Bank Holiday?"
Closed ALL banks
What was a goal of the TVA?
to provide electricity to rural areas
Nickname of shantytowns where people lived during the Depression
Hoovervilles
Along with drought this was a major cause of the Dust Bowl
Overfarming
President the did not believe in interfering with the economy?
Herbert Hoover
What are Fireside Chats?
Radio speeches given by FDR.
New Deal agency provided retirement benefits through payroll tax:
Social Security (SSA)
President during the beginning of the Great Depession ?
Herbert Hoover
As a result of the Dust Bowl many Americans fled states like Oklahoma for
California and/or West coast
This group of veterans protested to call for WWI payments?
Bonus Army
A criticism of the New Deal is the growth of the role of the:
Federal government
What did the SEC (Securities Exchange Commission) do?
Regulates Stock Market
Name for date of stock market crash:
Black Tuesday
Dust Bowl migrants were negatively referred to as
Okies
Louisiana politician who believed in taking economic programs further than the New Deal through Share the Wealth?
Huey Long
The New Deal helped America recover from the Great Depression but the country did not fully recover until:
World War II
Agency focused on building infrastructure like bridges and courthouses:
WPA
Method of buying stocks where buyer only pays a small amount upfront
Buying on margins
John Steinbeck wrote this great American novel about the Dust Bowl and Depressions
The Grapes of Wrath
Economist who helped create New Deal era economic philosophy?
John Maynard Keynes
FDR attempted to prevent New Deal reforms being ruled unconstitutional through:
Court packing (increasing number of Supreme Court justices)
New Deal agency which dealt with crop prices
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