Causes
The president during the down spiral of the Nation, and the crash of the stock-market.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Event that got us out of the Great Depression by creating jobs and reopening industries.
Little towns consisting of shacks where the homeless lived
What is Shantytowns?
Programs and aide created to help the economy revive itself and create job opportunities
What is recovery?
When people tried to pull money out of the banks, the banks didn't have any money to give to these people.
What is Bank Failure?
The event that occurred because of overproduction, drought, and wind.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Farm families who packed up everything & traveled to California in search of work as farmhands
What are Oakies?
Provide immediate financial support to those who need assistance.
What is relief?
Those who said the New Deal does not go far enough to help the poor & reform the nation’s economic system
What is Liberals?
Came as a result of over consuming and overproduction.
What is Overconfidence?
What is Stock Market Crash?
Something that helped improve the lives of people suffering from the events of the depression. This also set a precedent for the federal government to play a key role in the economic and social affairs of the nation.
What is New Deal?
Programs created to fix problem areas to prevent something like this from happening again.
What is reform?
Those who said too much money on direct relief & government intervention into business; trying to socialize the economy
What is Conservatives?
Act that was supposed to lessen foreign competition by having high protective taxes but backfired reducing the flow of goods into the US, lowering the amount of US currency globally. World trade fell by 40%.
What is Hawley Smooth Tariff?
A bill that would allow FDR to reorganize the court & appoint an additional 6 Supreme Court justices
What is "Court-Packing-Bill"?
Federal group that declared one of the programs unconstitutional.
What is the Supreme Court?
Lines of people waiting to receive food provided by charitable organizations or public agencies
What is Relief?
What is WPA & PWA?
Buying stocks & bonds on the chance of quick profit with high risk.
What is Speculation?
A program that came as a result of the New Deal Act, it included union protection programs, and programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers.
What is Social Security?
Families came closer to together during this time.
What is Families strengthened?
Programs and laws put into place by FDR to ensure the Great Depression would never happen again.
What is reform?
African Americans served on this board as unofficial advisors.
What is Black Cabinet?