2.16-2.21

Question 1

The president who was president from 1933-1945. He was the one who did the fireside chats

Answer 1

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

Question 2

Series of domestic programs, public work project, and financial reforms/regulations enacted by President FDR

Answer 2

New Deal

Question 3

3 r’s

Answer 3

Reform, relief, recovery

Question 4

a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and procured by a government body for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community.

Answer 4

Public works

Question 5

A law passed by Congress to stabilize the banking system after the Great Depression:

Answer 5

Emergency Banking act of 1933

Question 6

law that separated commercial and investment banking to restore confidence in the banking system after the 1929 stock market crash

Answer 6

Glass Steagall Act (Banking act of 1933)

Question 7

A government corp created to supply deposit insurance to depositors in america. Created during the Banking act of 1933

Answer 7

FDIC

Question 8

Federal agency that regulates the securities industry in the US in order to avoid market manipulation. EG - requires the disclosure of important market info

Answer 8

SEC (Securities and exchange commission)

Question 9

Act aimed to stimulate the economy during the great depression

Answer 9

NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act)

Question 10

The act that makes it clear that it is a policy of the US to encourage labor unions by protecting workers’ full freedom of association

Answer 10

National Labor Relations Act

Question 11

Federal program that provides retirement benefits and disability income to qualified individuals and their spouses, children and survivors.

Answer 11

Social Security

Question 12

Act that was designed to provide immediate econ relief to farmers during the great depression

Answer 12

AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)

Question 13

A gov agency developed to assist in aiding the US in the industrial production of materials for the US army. Coordinated and channeled production.

Answer 13

War Industries Board (WW1)

Question 14

Converted the factories of peacetime industries into manufacturing plants for weapons and military equipment for the fight.

Answer 14

War production Board (WW2)

Question 15

During ww2, the government set limits on purchasing certain high demand items.

Answer 15

Rationing

Question 16

It was a group that helped controlled all war related news and promoted the war effort through propaganda.

Answer 16

Office of Public information (WW1)

Question 17

federal agency established by President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9182 of June 13, 1942, to conduct the government’s wartime information and propaganda programs.

Answer 17

Office of War Information (WW2)

Question 18

This was created in ww2 to put a “ceiling on prices” for goods and limit consumption by rationing.

Answer 18

Office of Price Administration (WW2)

Question 19

A debt security issued by a government to finance military operations during times of war or conflict. (Bonds issued by gov so ppl could buy and support the war effort)

Answer 19

War bonds

Answer 20

GI Bill (servicemen’s Readjustment Act)

Question 21

Post ww2. More babies were born as men came home after war and settled down and started families.

Answer 21

Baby Boom (1946-1964)

Question 22

Population shift from cities/rural areas into suburbs. They were created as a result of single families buying homes and moving out of the city.

Answer 22

Suburbanization

Question 23

the class that rose after the second ww and the baby boom. These people could buy suburban homes.

Answer 23

Middle class

Answer 24

Internal migration

Question 25

The discriminatory practice in the United States where banks, mortgage lenders, and other financial institutions systematically denied loans, insurance, and other financial services to people living in certain neighborhoods, often based on racial or ethnic composition rather than individual creditworthiness.

Answer 25

redlining

Question 26

Legal agreements embedded in property deeds that restricted the sale, lease, or transfer of property to specific groups of people, often based on race, religion, or ethnicity. Were a key tool in maintaining racial segregation in housing in the United States, particularly during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Answer 26

Restrictive covenants

Question 27

President who came up with the great society idea.

Answer 27

Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)

Question 28

A series of domestic programs and policy initiatives launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the mid-1960s. The goal was to eliminate poverty and racial injustice while improving the quality of life for all Americans. It marked one of the most ambitious reform agendas in U.S. history.

Answer 28

Great society

Question 29

Part of the Great Society program aimed to reduce poverty and economic inequality in the US

Answer 29

War on poverty

Question 30

Part of LBJ’s war on Poverty. Established under the higher

Answer 30

Teacher Corp

Answer 31

Medicare

Answer 32

Medicaid

Answer 33

National Endowment for the arts

Answer 34

National Endowment for the Humanities

Answer 35

Elementary and Secondary education act

Answer 36

Housing and urban development act

Answer 37

Air quality act of 1967

Answer 38

trade deficit

Answer 39

Inflation

Answer 40

Stagflation

Question 41

Measure of economic distress felt by people. Created in the 1970s to provide a snapshot of the US economy

Answer 41

Misery Index

Answer 42

OPEC

Answer 43

Embargo

Answer 44

Jimmy Carter

Answer 45

Rust Belt

Answer 46

Sunbelt

Answer 47

Globalization

Answer 48

Clintonomics

Answer 49

Welfare reforms

Answer 50

Deindustralization

Answer 51

Dotcom Bubble

Answer 52

NAFTA