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100
The day stock prices fell and stock market crashed
What is Black Tuesday?
100
Someone who wants to preserve traditional customs & values
What is a conservative?
100
Roosevelt's program of emergency legislation
What is the New Deal?
100
Government assistance to the needy
What is welfare state?
100
It tried to reduce production to raise crop prices
What is the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)
200
Three causes of the stock market crash
What is overspeculation, overproduction, and underconsumption?
200
Someone who is committed to the expansion of liberty
What is a liberal?
200
Congress rejected FDR's attempt at replacing aging justices with liberals who would support his New Deal programs
What is court packing?
200
The New Deal expanded or lessened the power of the federal government?
What is more?
200
It created jobs by building Red Rocks amphitheater
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp)
300
The most serious problem during the Great Depression
What is unemployment?
300
When economic activity declines
What is recession/depression?
300
Designed to provide economic security to the unemployed and retired
What is Social Security?
300
The New Deal attracted more people to this political party
What is Democratic Party?
300
It created jobs by building public works projects (road, bridges, etc.)
What is WPA (Works Progress Administration)
400
Depositors lost confidence in their banks and so they withdraw their cash, causing banks to fail
What is a "run" on the bank?
400
The majority of states in the union voted for FDR in 1932
What is a landslide?
400
The U.S. was pulled out of the Great Depression
What is WWII?
400
It tried to lessen poverty in retirement
What is Social Security?
400
It ensures your money in the bank up to $150,000
What is FDIC (Federal Deposit Insured Corporation)
500
Congress raised tariff's on American goods and triggered a world-wide collapse in trade
What is the Smoot-Hawley tariff?
500
Congress passed a record number of bills
What is the 1st hundred days?
500
A process in which land becomes increasingly dry and desertlike.
What is desertification?
500
it prompted the government to enact a flood-control program
What is the Great Flood of 1936?
500
It built dams to supply rural areas with electricity and create jobs
What is TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)