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FDR & New Deal
New Deal
New Deal Cont.
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Vocab
100

Name of homeless towns that people moved to after they were evicted from their apartments. 

Hoovervilles. 

100
It was the practice of closing banks before bank runs could put them out of business.
What is bank holidays?
100

The law assisting older Americans and the unemployed.

What is Social Security Act?

100

The amendment that got rid of prohibition (the 18th amendment)

What is the 21st Amendment?

100

A period of low economic growth, higher unemployment, and less spending. 

Recession

200

There was not one main cause of the depression but this event signaled that the country's economy was in trouble.

Stock Market Crash of 1929

200
Roosevelt's policies during the Great Depression were known as
What is the New Deal?
200
FDR's first major mistake when he tried to interfere with the Constitution's separation of powers and undermine the Court's independence.
What is court-packing plan?
200

Large dust storms in the southwest region of the United States lasting for days with no end in sight.

The Dust Bowl

200

Emptying a bank out of all the money it has and forcing the bank to close. 

Bank Run

300

Roosevelt's method of speaking directly to the people, explaining new laws, changes to the country, and informing people of what they can do to help ease the Great Depression.

What is Fireside Chats?

300
This New Deal Program brought electricity to Tennessee.
What is the TVA
300

What critic of the new deal proposed that we "split the wealth"? 

Huey Long, gov. of Louisiana 

300

The first female Labor Secretary who helped give workers a 40 hour work week, better conditions, and a minimum wage.

Who is Francis Perkins?

300

Group of veterans that marched on Washington DC to protest and demand their bonuses that they were promised for serving in WWI. 

Bonus Army 

400

What are the 3 R's of The New Deal 

Relief, recovery, reform. 

400

A policy which stated banks have to insure customer deposits up to $2,500, even after a economic crash.

What is the FDIC?

400

When stock brokers demand payment on loans used to buy stocks. 

Margin Call 

400
The government practice of abandoning a balanced budget and borrowing money to pay for programs.
What is deficit spending?
400

A government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

500

The period between March 9 and June 16, 1933, when Congress passed 15 major acts to meet an economic crisis.

What is the First Hundred Days?

500
A program that paid farmers not to grow certain crops, such as cotton, corn, wheat, and tobacco.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
500

A law that gave workers the right to form unions so they could fight for better wages and working conditions.

What is the National Labor Relations Act?

500

A law that took the country off the gold standard, increasing the value of the dollar.

What is the Emergency Banking Act?

500

Buying stocks on a loan with hopes that the market will never go down. 

Buying stocks on margin.