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What was the New Deal and Results of it?

It was a plan FDR came up with after the Great Depression: Relief for the poor, recovery for the economy and reform of the financial system. This did improve people's lives in the great depression short term. 

100

Herbert Hoover

He held office at the onset of the great depression. He was an American politician and humanitarian.

100

Dust Bowl 

Period of severe dust storms that made it hard for farmers to do work

100

President at the beginning of the GD

Hoover

100
Banks that failed

11,000

200

Results of the Great Depression? 

Factories were shut down, homes were lost because of foreclosure, people were lacking in food and resources, and stocks/businesses failed also making unemployment at an all time low. 

200

Warren Harding 

He signed the Budget and Accounting Act which established the country's first formal budgeting process

200

Who was blamed for the state of America during the Great Depression?

Herbert Hoover

200

President after FDR 

Harry Truman

200

What dropped by 40% during the Great Depression?

Family income

300

Results of FDR's court packing/scandal attempt?

He lost the court packing battle but won the war for control over the supreme court because he served for 12 years. He also appointed 8 of the 9 justices on the court. 

300

FDR 

One of the most popular US presidents and was president during WW2 and the great Depression 

300

Unemployment rate during the Great Depression

33%

300
Share the Wealth Plan 

Huey Long

300

What created around 100 new government offices and 40 new agencies.

The new deal

400

Long term result of the New Deal? 

New Deal programs set a precedent for the federal government to play a key role in the economic and social affairs of the nation.

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Calvin Coolidge 

Coolidge ran on the record of fiscal conservatism, strong support for women's suffrage and United States experienced a period of rapid economic growth known as the "Roaring Twenties." Unemployment remained low while the country's gross domestic product rose from $85.2 billion in 1924 to $101.4 in 1929.

400

Dorothea Lange

Took photos in the GD 

400

The person who came up with a plan to give all citizens over 60 $200 a month.

Francis Towsend 

400

Worst years of the GD

What is 1932 and 1933

500

Result of the Wall street crash? 

Major stock crash that led to GD 

500

Eleanor Roosevelt 

High supporter of civil rights, women's suffrage and social reforms to uplift the poor

500

Most Affected

Children, the poor, African Americans 

500

Catholic Priest who blasted Jews and capitalism on his radio show 

Charles Coughlin

500

First Hundred Days of Roosevelet

He pushed 15 major laws