FDR & New Deal
Name of homeless towns that people moved to after they were evicted from their apartments.
Hoovervilles.
The law assisting older Americans and the unemployed.
What is Social Security Act?
The amendment that got rid of prohibition (the 18th amendment)
What is the 21st Amendment?
A period of low or negative economic growth, higher unemployment, and less spending.
Depression.
Name for the banning of the sale and consumption of alcohol.
Prohibition.
There was not one main cause of the depression but this event is usually regarded as the beginning of the depression.
Stock Market Crash of 1929
FDR's first major mistake when he tried to interfere with the Constitution's separation of powers and undermine the Court's independence by adding 6 new supreme court justices.
What is court-packing plan?
Large dust storms in the southwest region of the United States lasting for days with no end in sight.
The Dust Bowl
Emptying a bank out of all the money it has and forcing the bank to close.
Bank Run
Transportation technology that became common in the 1920s.
Automobile.
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?
Gave jobs to millions of unemployed people to carry out public works
projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
Works Progress Administration - WPA
Tariff that, in 1930, raised import duties
within the U.S., leading to tariffs from other countries
that worsened the Great Depression.
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Group of veterans that marched on Washington DC to protest and demand their bonuses that they were promised for serving in WWI.
Bonus Army
Communication technology that became common in the 1920s.
Radio
What are the 3 R's of The New Deal
Relief, recovery, reform.
The new organization through which the government would insure customer deposits up to $2,500 in banks, even after a economic crash. (Today the amount is $250,000)
What is the FDIC? (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
Relief agency that provided work for young men 18-25 years old in food control, planting, flood work, etc.
Civilian Conservation Corps.
Part of Alaska bankrupt farmers were relocated to with government aid to start new farms.
Mat-Su valley
Governor of Louisiana became known as "dictator of Louisiana" but did good things for the poor.
Huey Long
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?
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?
Used bonds to issue new mortgages to families currently in default
and to prevent foreclosure.
HOLC - Home Owners Loan Corporation.
Buying stocks on a loan with hopes that the market will never go down.
Buying stocks on margin.
Something Huey Long did for the people of Louisiana
Free textbooks, better roads, free night school for illiterate adults, hospitals, tripled State University and made free for poor students