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World War I veterans who demanded early payment of their service benefit by camping out in Washington, DC in May of 1932.
Who is the Bonus Army?
What are Hoovervilles?
The stock market crash, when a rapid sell-off of stock shares dropped market values substantially.
What is Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929?
When there are too many product being produced with a limited number of consumers to purchase them.
What is overproduction?
Paying as little as 10% of a stock's value, borrowing 90% from a Stock Broker on the promise to pay the balance upon a later sale of the stock for profit.
What is buying on margin?
President who domestic policy platform was known as the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
A volunteer establishment to feed the hungry and the unemployed.
What is a soup kitchen?
This law was intended to protect American businesses from foreign competition and instead triggered a trade war that hurt overproducing American farmers and industries.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
When there are not enough people to purchase goods being produced due to economic decline.
What is underconsmuption?
Government-funded construction projects that provide for local needs, including roads, bridges, and dams.
What are public works?
A slur used by Californians to describe migrants from the Dust Bowl.
What are Okies?
Location where black blizzards occur due to soil depletion from over-farming.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This New Deal program sponsored artists to produce murals, music, and statues to uplift the morale of the American people.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
A pattern in which economic growth is followed by decline, panic, and eventual recovery.
What is the business cycle?
Economic belief that money seeps down from expanding businesses to workers.
What is trickle-down theory?
This New Deal program was designed specifically to address the needs of American farmers.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
New Deal program that was used to restore and upgrade the National Park System.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This New Deal program was deemed unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)?
Programs which provide aid to those to those in need, effectively redistributing money from the wealthy to the poor people in society.
What is social welfare?
Novel by John Steinbeck that chronicles the migration of a family from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
An alliance of women, minority groups, workers, farmers, immigrants, reformers, southern Whites, and urban residents.
What is the New Deal Coalition?
Unemployed labor were often found in these in urban centers to acquire food to take home to their families.
What is a breadline?
Radio broadcasts from the White House that Franklin Roosevelt used to convey information about the progress of the New Deal to the American people.
What are the Fireside Chats?
This New Deal law was a bill of rights for organized labor that legalized labor unions and their right to collective bargaining.
What is the Wagner Act?
Established a government-managed retirement fund for American workers.
What is the Social Security Act?