Causes
Led to the devastating Wall Street Crash of Oct 29
What is Market Speculation?
A series of droughts struck the Great Plains in the early 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The three R's of The New Deal.
What is Relief, Recover, and Reform?
Plan to add six additional Justices to the Supreme Court.
What is the Court Packing Scheme?
Millions of displaced citizens became homeless, leading to the rise of shantytowns.
What are Hoovervilles?
It set off a chain reaction that crashed the American economy and hurt the other countries economy.
What is The New York Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday, October 29th, 1929)
Over 500,000 Mexican-Americans were forcibly removed, regardless of whether they were legal citizens or immigrants.
What is Mexican Repatriation?
Insured bank deposits to protect savings during bank failures.
What is the FDIC?
Paid farmers to plant less to increase crop prices, and later bought farm surpluses to store in warehouses.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
Took a hands off approach to business and the economy.
What is Laissez-faire?
Fearful depositors with draw funds causing over 9000 bank failures.
What is a Bank Run?
Reached a staggering peak of 25% by 1933.
What is unemployment?
Created to watch over the stock market, prevent fraud, and guard against another collapse.
What is the SEC?
Created federal jobs building schools, courts, post offices, and bridges.
What is the Public Works Administration?
Created a Public works Project that led to the creation of this massive project 30 miles outside of Las Vegas.
What is the Hoover Dam?
Increased the tax on importing foreign goods extremely high to where Americans could not afford to buy foreign goods.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
Migrated west to California searching for grueling work as migrant laborers.
What are Okies?
Provided workers with unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, and early death insurance.
What is Social Security?
Employed young men in forests; provided camps and free food, with most pay sent to their parents.
What is Civilian Conservative Corps (CCC)?
Hoover stated that hunger and cold should be prevented through...
What is voluntary giving and local government?
Created a large poor/lower class and a small rich/upper class.
What is Uneven distribution of Wealth?
Photographer who captured iconic, haunting images of destitute migrant workers and starving families
Who is Dorothea Lange?
Manages regional electricity generation, infrastructure, and flood control systems.
What is the TVA?
22nd Amendment was created to limit a presidents terms after Roosevelt won this number of elections.
What is four consecutive elections?
WWI Veterans that were forcibly removed form the capital grounds after setting up an shanty-town.
What is the Bonus Army?