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Causes of the Depression
Hoover
FDR
New Deal
Life During Depression
100
Known as Black Tuesday
What is the wall street crash
100
A schedule of tariff rates that was the highest in history
What is Hawley-Smoot Tariff
100
The three R's
What is relief, recovery, and reform
100
Employed young men on federal projects and paid their families monthly
What is the civilian conservation corps
100
Drought throughout the great plains
What is the dust bowl
200
The top 5 percent of the richest held over 33 percent of the income
What is uneven distribution of income
200
Proposal for all war time debts to be put on hold
What is moratorium
200
A group of people created to advise the president
What is the Brain Trust
200
Government corporation that hired thousands of people to build dams, operate electric power plants, control flooding, and manufacture fertilizer.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority
200
Woman in power championing women's equality
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt
300
Relying on being able to pay back instead of paying at the time
What is excessive use of credit
300
Plan for repayment of war debts, later stated that it couldn't continue
What is Dawes Plan
300
Disease that paralyzed the president
What is polio
300
a federal program still used today to fund retired people and disabled people
What is the Social Security Act
300
Unemployment rate was highest for this group of people
Who is African Americans
400
A surplus of goods being made
What is overproduction of consumer goods
400
Board authorized to help farmers stabilize prices
What is Federal Farm Board
400
A period of time in which congress passed into law more legislation than any single congress before.
What is the first hundred days
400
Agency that employed 3.4 million mainly doing jobs like constructing bridges, roads, airports, and buildings
What is the Works Progress Administration
400
A committee set up to assist minorities in gaining jobs in defense industries
What is the Fair Employment Practices Committee
500
Not being able to pay wartime debts to Europe
What is worldwide depression
500
A measure for propping up railroads, banks, and other financial institutions
What is Reconstruction Finance Corporation
500
Talks on the radio in which the president informed the public about the nation's status
What are fireside chats
500
Novel written by Steinbeck about the economic hardships
What is The Grapes of Wrath