Hoover vs. FDR
This president is famous for his use of the media to appeal to the public and the line "we have nothing to fear but fear itself".
FDR
was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The New Deal
as a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.
NRA - National Recovery Act
The rise in this among American workers was major result of the Great Depression.
unemployment
the longest and most severe economic downturn in modern history.
The Great Depression
This man was the president during the market crash of 1929.
President Hoover
a nickname for U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal
Alphabet Soup (Agencies)
was a federal law, a farm bill, of the New Deal era. The purpose of the legislation was to provide relief for farmers and other agricultural workers during the Great Depression.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
During the Roaring Twenties Americans first started using this to buy luxury items.
Margin/credit
This was the term for shantytowns made of cardboard boxes which housed many of the people affected by the Great Depression
Hoovervilles
This president felt that the government needed to be more involved in the lives and business of the citizens - a "new way" from the way it was.
FDR
a group of experts (professors, lawyers, journalists, social workers) FDR worked with to create the New Deal Program.
Brain Trust
main goal was to alleviate household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government.
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Between 1930 and 1932 the United States experienced four extended banking panics, during which large numbers of bank customers, fearful of their bank’s solvency, simultaneously attempted to withdraw their deposits in cash.
Banking Crisis
Farmers were most affected by this event during the Great Depression which blew up dirt and created huge dust storms in the great plains states.
Dust Bowl
Bonus: This woman became a symbol of social justice as she was FDR's eyes and ears
Eleanor Roosevelt
series of radio addresses delivered by U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1944 used to gain support
Fireside Chats
a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
BOUNS: This was the result of worsening social and economic inequality in the South forced ½ million African Americans to move to northern cites to find work.
The Great Migration
closed all banks; could not re-open until government inspectors declared bank sound.
Bank Holiday
This president attacked The Bonus Army group because they were demanding to receive their bonus checks from WWI.
Hoover
These 3 "R"s were promised by FDR, each New Deal Agency focused on one of these promises.
Relief, Recovery, & Reform
American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
WPA - The Works Progress Administration
High protective tariffs that produced retaliatory tariffs in other countries, strangling world trade were a cause of The Great Depression. Name one such tariff
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
----- are when a large number of bank customers withdraw their deposits because they believe the bank is, or might become, insolvent. Much of the Great Depression's economic damage was caused directly them
Bank runs