Causes
Also known as "Black Tuesday." Stock prices fell dramatically and millions of dollars disappeared from the U.S. economy.
What is the New York Stock Market Crash?
These were the three goals of the New Deal. The goals consisted of creating jobs for people, stimulating demand, and fixing the flaws in the U.S. economy.
What is relief, recovery and reform?
This program gave young men jobs planting trees and cleaning the environment.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
The constant tilling of the soil on the Great Plains and a series of droughts that created storms that destroyed farmer's crops and homes.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Who is Frances Perkins?
What is buying on margin?
Shanty towns of homeless unemployed living on the outskirts of cities.
What are Hoovervilles?
Insured bank deposits so that people would not lose their money during an economic depression.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
The forced deportation of Mexican-American immigrants (some US citizens) to Mexico because of job competition during the Great Depression.
What is the Mexican Repatriation Act?
Wrote a book titled "It's Up to the Women" encouraging women to help their families through the Great Depression. She also traveled throughout the country speaking on behalf of FDR.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The machinery created during Industrialization led to mass production of goods and farm products leading to a decrease in prices during the Great Depression.
What is overproduction?
Hoover's belief that Americans should help themselves and that the federal government should not provide help. Hoover believed that the government should not undermine people's ability to work.
What is Rugged Individualism?
What is the Social Security Act?
Declared the first Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional because the government was violating the 10th amendment by paying farmers to plant less and interfering in intrastate commerce.
What is Butler v. United States?
Commissioned to photograph the effects of the Great Depression.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
This tariff raised taxes on imported goods to their highest levels ever and halted world trade during the Depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
A critic of FDR who did not believe FDR did enough to help Americans through the Great Depression, proposed that every citizen over the age of 65 should be given a monthly pension of $200 to spend.
Who is Francis Townsend?
Program that created 21 dams to bring electricity to rural areas and other resources to improve the standard of living.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Declared the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) unconstitutional because the federal government set up business codes violating the 10th amendment and intervened in intrastate commerce.
What is Schecter Poultry v. United States?
Wrote a book titled "The Grapes of Wrath" about farmers in the Great Plains (aka the Oakies) who had to relocated to California during the Dust Bowl.
Who is John Steinbeck?
This monetary policy did not allow the federal government to print any money at a time when inflation was necessary to raise prices on goods.
What is the Gold Standard?
People affected by the Great Depression went to these in search of food.
What are breadlines and soup kitchens?
Program created by Hoover to provide emergency loans to failing businesses and banks. It was the one of two actions that Hoover did in an attempt to halt the Great Depression?
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
FDR's attempt to add more justices to the Supreme Court because they were ruling his New Deal programs unconstitutional. Congress rejected his proposal. It resulted in tension between the three branches.
What is Roosevelt's Court Packing Scheme?
Man who criticized FDR's New Deal programs. Believed every American family should be given a yearly income of $5,000 that should be raised by taxing the rich.
Who is Huey P. Long?