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.
Herbert Hoover
He held office at the onset of the great depression. He was an American politician and humanitarian.
Dust Bowl
Period of severe dust storms that made it hard for farmers to do work
President at the beginning of the GD
Hoover
11,000
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.
Warren Harding
He signed the Budget and Accounting Act which established the country's first formal budgeting process
Who was blamed for the state of America during the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
President after FDR
Harry Truman
What dropped by 40% during the Great Depression?
Family income
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.
FDR
One of the most popular US presidents and was president during WW2 and the great Depression
Unemployment rate during the Great Depression
33%
Huey Long
What created around 100 new government offices and 40 new agencies.
The new deal
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.
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.
Dorothea Lange
Took photos in the GD
The person who came up with a plan to give all citizens over 60 $200 a month.
Francis Towsend
Worst years of the GD
What is 1932 and 1933
Result of the Wall street crash?
Major stock crash that led to GD
Eleanor Roosevelt
High supporter of civil rights, women's suffrage and social reforms to uplift the poor
Most Affected
Children, the poor, African Americans
Catholic Priest who blasted Jews and capitalism on his radio show
Charles Coughlin
First Hundred Days of Roosevelet
He pushed 15 major laws