1930s terms

Question 1

Commodity

Answer 1

A useful or valuable material

Question 2

Tariffs

Answer 2

A list o system of duties imposed by governments

Question 3

Federal government

Answer 3

A nations system of designating power

Question 4

Federalism

Answer 4

The federal principal of govt

Question 5

Pensions

Answer 5

a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person’s surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc

Question 6

Subsidize

Answer 6

to secure the cooperation of by bribery; buy over.

Question 7

Railroad bulls

Question 8

Bank run

Answer 8

The concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they fear that the bank will fail

Question 9

Transient

Answer 9

lasting only a short time; existing briefly; temporary:

Question 10

Itinerate worker

Question 11

Welfare

Answer 11

the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being:

Question 12

Shanty

Answer 12

a crudely built hut, cabin, or house

Question 13

Hooverville

Answer 13

a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.

Question 14

Vagrancy

Question 15

Flophouse

Question 16

Repatriate

Question 17

“Deportations”

Question 18

What were the conditions when FDR took over

Question 19

What was FDRs inaugural address

Question 20

Bank holiday

Question 21

Fireside chats

Question 22

FERA

Question 23

HOLA [HOLC]

Question 24

Glass-steagall [FDIC]

Question 25

Gold standered

Question 26

AAA

Question 27

NIRA

Question 28

TVA