Causes of the Great Depression
This event, which occurred on October 29, 1929, marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This beloved Disney movie served as temporary relief for many people after the Great Depression.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
This president presented a series of programs that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans during the depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The legislative proposal to reorganize the Supreme Court and appoint 6 more justices is often referred to as this.
What is the Court-Packing Bill?
The government provided this to help those who were struggling financially after the Great Depression.
What is welfare?
This terms refers to the theory that markets are self-regulating, meaning they will correct themselves without government intervention.
What is laissez-faire economics?
These little towns consisting of shacks were where the homeless lived during the depression.
What are Shantytowns?
This president was criticized for not helping the country mitigate the crisis and became the scapegoat of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
What is the Works Progress Administration?
These are monthly payments/pensions given to Americans.
What is social security?
Before the economic crash, many people were investing in stocks with borrowed money, meaning they were doing this.
What is buying stocks on margin?
The period during the depression of severe dust storms that greatly damaged ecology and agriculture is called this.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This First Lady changed the role for women in the White House and advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
FDR's first action as president was this to help solve the Great Depression.
What is Bank Holiday/closing the banks?
The New Deal gave this political party a majority in both houses from 1932-1995 for all by 4 years.
What is the Democratic Party?
This popular drink company had many people investing in its stock in the 1920s.
What is Coca-Cola?
Between 1929 and 1932, this many farms were foreclosed because of the economic crash.
What is 400,000?
This president served during the "Roaring 20s" and called for isolation in foreign policy, and for tax cuts, economy, and limited aid to farmers.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This was one act in the New Deal that was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act/National Industrial Recovery Act?
This act distributed federal aid to Americans and employed millions of people.
What is the Relief Efforts Act?
This tariff, signed into law in 1930, worsened the Great Depression by reducing international trade.
What is the Smoot Hawley Tariff?
The unemployment rate, 25%, was highest in this year of the Great Depression.
What is 1933?
This Black Cabinet advisor helped organize the first group to press for civil rights from within the federal government.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
The New Deal's response to the Great Depression focused on these three R's.
What is relief, recovery, reform?
This act restored tribal control over Native American land, and encouraged the practice of Indian religions, language, & traditional customs.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934?