Academic Vocabulary/People 1
What some Texans called armadillos during the Great Depression.
What were Hoover Hogs.
The process of moving from a wartime to a peacetime economy.
What was demobilization.
What was the TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
What is the FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
What caused the Dust Bowl
Overgrazing, over plowing, and massive drought
Election in which voters select persons to run in a later general election?
What is a primary election.
African American doctor from El Paso who sued the state in 1924 when he was not allowed to vote in a primary.
Who was Lawrence A. Nixon
What was the WPA
Works Progress Administration
What was the CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
What caused the crisis in the oil industry in the early 1930's?
Overproduction after oil was discovered in East Texas.
Paper notes issued bye local governments instead of paper money.
What was script.
Wildcatter who brought in the Daisy Bradford NO. 3 oil well in 1930.
Who was C.M. "Dad" Joiner
What was the AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Who was the President who initiated the New Deal
Who was Franklin D Roosevelt
Who was the first woman governor of Texas who offered Texas "two governors for the price of one?"
Shares of ownership in a company.
What are stocks.
Governor who opposed government programs like unemployment relief.
Who wa Ross Sterling.
What was the SSA?
Social Security Act
Who was the President during the first year of the Great Depressioin
Who was Herbert Hoover
Why did the economy slow after WWI
Government spending decreased dramatically
Governor who declared Marshall Law to put down a railroad strike.
Who was Pat Neff
What was proportionate divisionor distribution?
What is preration
What was the REA
Rural Electrification Act
What was the FERA
Federal Emergency Relief Act
LULAC (League of Latin American Culture) main focus was what?
Equal rights for Mexican Americans