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Cause of the GD
Effects of the GD
FDR's "Alphabet Soup" solutions to the GD
The Political Spectrum
Why HST? GD v GR?
100
This began on Wall St. in 1929 and is often referred to as "Black Tuesday."
What is the stock market crash?
100
The biggest effect of the GD, when businesses shut down, people lost their livelihood.
What is unemployment?
100
This program attempted to have the government help businesses, labor unions, and the unemployed through regulations such as minimum wages and hours.
What is NRA (National Recovery Act)?
100
They believe in free-market capitalism, no government interference, and limited inequality.
What is the Republicans/conservatives?
100
This helps us move forward and avoid problems of the previous generations.
What is "Learn not to repeat mistakes of the past?"
200
When borrowers couldn't repay loans, or people made "runs" on banks attempting to withdraw their savings this happened.
What are bank closures/failures?
200
Mostly affecting farmers, when crop prices dropped, farmers could no longer make mortgage payments, so the banks confiscated their property.
What is farm foreclosures?
200
This program provided jobs, flood safety, and electricity by building dams (in Tennessee first, then other areas later).
What is TVA (Tennessee Valley Administration)?
200
They believe in change, government regulation, and limited equality.
What is the Democrats/liberals?
200
This is when we see a relationship between events that happened in the past and what came after those events.
What is Cause and Effect?
300
Prior to the stock market crash, businesses and companies were making more products than people could afford to buy (and as a result, were losing money).
What is overproduction.
300
When people lost their jobs and they couldn't pay rent/mortgage, they were evicted and became ___________, often living in "_______________."
What is homeless/Hoovervilles?
300
This program created military-like jobs for young men, working in rural and outdoor settings building fire-roads, telephone lines, National Parks, and planting trees. For Example, this picture; http://media.oregonlive.com/mapes/photo/13216539-standard.jpg
What is CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
300
They believe in absolute inequality, no change, and use violence.
What is Reactionaries/fascism?
300
A massive economic downturn triggered in part by the Stock Market Crash.
What is the Great Depression?
400
Prior to the stock market crash, there was a growing problem or high wages for the few and very low wages for the majority.
What is the wealth gap?
400
Economic stress led to psychological stress which increased _________, __________, _________, or ________.
What is suicides, loss of self-respect, low birth rate, low marriage rate, high college drop out rate, kicking teens out of the house, etc.
400
This program created jobs in cities building bridges, highways, airports, post offices (and other government buildings) as well as public works of art and free concerts in cities.
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)?
400
They believe in absolute equality, urgent change, and revolution.
What is Radicals/communism?
400
Both the GD and GR began during de-regulated ____________ party presidencies and were then dealt with through government 'jobs programs' of __________ party presidencies.
What is Republican (Hoover/Bush) and Democratic (Roosevelt/Obama).
500
As people lost jobs and savings, the began to buy and consume less, which hurt businesses and, especially, farmers economically hard.
What is under-consumption?
500
Unable to buy basic necessities, Americans suffered from _________, _____________, or ____________.
What is starvation, malnutrition, sickness.
500
This program created retirement funds run by the government taken out of peoples paychecks as taxes.
What is Social Security?
500
They believe in significant equality, significant government regulation, and gain power by voting. ("Tea party" Republicans often accuse Pres. Obama of being this.)
What is Socialists?
500
The greatest football club anywhere.
What is The Portland Timbers Football Club