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FDR
Depressing Legislation
Potpourri
100
Putting down a small amount of cash to buy stock
What is buying on margin
100
Tried to achieve parity for farmers
What is the AAA
100
FDR ran for president as a member of this party
What are the Democrats
100
ended prohibtion
What is the 21st Amendment
100
Farmers who rented land and received a "share" of the profits after crops were sold
What are sharecroppers
200
Shantytowns of the suddenly poor and displaced
What are Hoovervilles
200
Created by the Glass-Steagall Act
What is FDIC
200
FDR promised this in the 1932 election
What was equal distribution of wealth AND the end of prohibition.
200
ended the lame duck period
What is the 20th Amendment
200
Perecentage of unemployment in 1932
What is 25%
300
Group of unemployed veterans who marched on Washington in 1932
What is the Bonus Army
300
Created to regulate the stock market
What is the SEC
300
FDR's brain trust was made up of these people
What were politicians, leaders, and friends
300
known as the labor Magna Carta
What is the Wagner Act
300
Farming techniques taught to dust bowl farmers to prevent erosion and soil loss.
What is shelterbelts, contour plowing, terrace gardening
400
Happens when the stock market suddenly crashes
What is the rapid drop of stock prices
400
Put every able-bodied person to work
What is the WPA
400
FDR had to resume spending in 1938 to counter-act this
What is the Roosevelt Recession
400
The Glass-Steagall act reformed this industry
What is the Banking industry
400
The three Presidents before FDR
Who were Hoover, Coolidge, and Harding
500
Because of this type of upbringing, Hoover didn't believe in handouts.
What is Quaker
500
Criticized for unfair competition by local utitlity companies
What is the TVA
500
FDR felt that this was a necessary by-product of "priming the pump"
What is an increased national deficit.
500
Name of the series of programs FDR hoped would end the depression.
What is the New Deal
500
The three causes of the Depression
What is unequal distribution of wealth, bank runs, buying on margin