Historical People
Specific Dates
Acts of the Great Depression
Definitions Part 1
Definitions Part 2
100
devised the townsend plan which was a proposal for state funded old age pensions.
Who is Francis Townsend
100
October 29,1929. day the NY stock exchange crashed.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding strain to the international economic crisis of the great depression.
What is the Hawley Smoot Tariff Act?
100
was created by the Agricultural Marketing Act to stabilize prices and to promote the sale of agricultural products.
What is Federal Farm Board?
100
the buying and selling of shares for the purpose of making a profit.
What is Stock Market Speculation?
200
United States Labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960.
Who is John L. Lewis?
200
established by congress on January 22nd 1932 to provide financial aid to railroads, financial institutions and business corporations.
What is Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
200
was created to decrease federal control of American Indian affairs and increasing Indian self government and responsibility.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
200
Government commission created by congress to regulate the securities markets and protect investors. Also monitors the corporate takeovers in the U.S.
What is Securities and Exchange Commission?
200
the use or involvement of volunteer labor.
What is Volunteerism?
300
U.S. Social activist who became a prominent member of the new deal democratic admininistration of pres. Roosevelt.
Who is Harold Ickes?
300
From March 6-10 1933 banking transactions were suspended across the nation except for making exchange.
What is Bank Holiday?
300
created to eliminate employers interference with the organization of workers into unions.
What is the Wagner Act?
300
investigated charges of discrimination in army or work places.
What is Fair Employement Practices Committee?
300
introduced in 1924, it was an attempt to stabilize Weimar Germany's economy.
What is the Dawes Plan?
400
Secretary of Labor under FDR and first woman to serve on a U.S president's cabinet.
Who is Francis Perkins?
400
public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1943 in the U.S for unemployed unmarried men from relief families ages 18-25.
What is Civilian Conservation Corps?
400
was an act created to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of federal old age benefits through employer and employee contributions.
What is Social security Act?
400
one of the many causes of the G.D , with companies and factories producing too many goods.
What is Overproduction?
400
created to help revive industry and labor through rational planning.
What is National Recovery Administration?
500
created Share our Wealth program to propose new wealth redistribution measures I the form of a net tax on corporations and individuals to curb the poverty and homelessness crisis nationwide during the GD.
Who is Huey Long?
500
popular name of a 43,000 marchers who gathered in Washington D.C in 1932 to demand early cash payment redemption of their service certificates.
What is Bonus Army?
500
federal program created to bail out farmers and provide price stability for crops.
What is the Agricultural marketing Act?
500
the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
500
the theory that Productive activity (spending) is strongly influenced by aggregate demand.
What is Keynesian economics?