Vocabulary
Radio speeches FDR made to the people
What are Fireside Chats
Payed senior citizens $200 dollars a month. The catch being the money had to be spent by the end of the month.
What is Social Security Act
Was FDR's "Eyes and ears"
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
What FDR created to end the Great Depression
What were the alphabet agencies?
Caused the Great Depression
What did a combination of plowing of fields and overgrazing of cattle cause?
Pay only part of the cost of the stock when a purchase is made
What is on margin
Gave rural areas the same electricity opportunities suburb areas got.
Payed senior citizens $200 dollars a month. The catch being the money had to be spent by the end of the month.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
Causes of the Great Depression
What was over production, durable goods, and weakness in banks?
Jobs given to women in the Great Depression.
Who was given the jobs of laundry, teachers, secretaries, seamstresses, and maids?
The rights due to all citizens
What are civil rights?
What did the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act Create?
Was in the black cabinet and was an economist
Who was Robert C. Weaver?
Rates dropped due to the Great Depression
What happened to marriage and birth rates?
Became migrant workers to make money.
What did poor tenant farmers become?
The process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract
The blue eagle
What logo did the National Recovery Administration (REA) use?
First female Cabinet Member was Secretary of State
Frances Perkins
Were some impacts of the collapse. (need 1)
1- Had to depend on industry for food
2- 1 out of 4 workers were jobless
3- chances of finding jobs were small
4- Marriage and brith rates dropped
5- dignity and self worth was destroyed
The direction Migrant workers went to find money.
What went west?
A vocabulary term that created a lot of National dept
What dis Deficit spending and what did it create?
Regulated stock market
What did the Security and Exchange Commission do?
Disbanded army with tanks, machine guns, and tear gas.
What did General MacArthur do?
Was the vote on the matter of the bonus army.
What did the house of Representatives voted yes and Congress voted no about?
The states hit by the Dust Bowl (the worst)
What were Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma?