Great Depression
President Hoover believed that individuals should rely on this instead of government aid during the Great Depression.
Personal Responsibility
To restore public confidence in banks, FDR declared this shortly after taking office.
What is a bank holiday?
This agency sought to stabilize the economy by setting fair wages and working hours.
What is the National Recovery Administration?
The SEC was created to regulate this financial industry.
What is the stock market?
The WPA famously funded the construction of these public learning spaces.
What are libraries and schools?
Many farmers from the Great Plains, especially from Oklahoma, migrated to this state in search of work during the Dust Bowl
California
The “Roosevelt Recession” of 1937 occurred after FDR cut funding for these programs.
What are New Deal programs?
The AAA aimed to help farmers by reducing this.
What is overproduction?
Will accept: What are crops and livestock?
One common CWA job was improving these pathways in cities and towns.
What are roads and sidewalks?
This act protected workers’ rights to form these organizations.
What is National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
The lack of diversification in the economy meant that when these two major industries declined, the whole economy suffered.
auto and construction
In his 1933 inaugural address, FDR famously declared, “The only thing we have to fear is
What is fear itself?
This act separated commercial and investment banking to prevent risky financial practices.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
Unlike Hoover’s approach, the FERA gave money directly to these local institutions to distribute aid.
What are state and local governments?
FDR’s court-packing plan was widely criticized for threatening this principle.
What is the separation of powers?
Many Americans criticized the RFC because it provided aid to this group but not directly to struggling individuals.
(What are big businesses and banks?)
Roosevelt famously reassured the American public with his radio addresses, known as these.
What are Fireside Chats?
This 1933 amendment repealed Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
Many CCC projects took place in these natural areas.
What are national parks and forests?
Social Security provided financial assistance to these three groups.
Who are elderly, unemployed workers, and disabled individuals.
High tariffs, such as this 1930 act, reduced international trade and worsened the Depression.
Smoot Hawley Tariff
Where did FDR go to high school?
Groton School
Despite some gains, many New Deal programs allowed discrimination, especially in these two Southern-dominated industries.
What are agriculture and domestic work?
This Louisiana senator proposed a radical wealth redistribution plan.
Who is Huey Long?
The Indian Reorganization Act reversed this earlier policy that had forced Native Americans onto individual land plots.
What is the Dawes Act?