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5/25/23 Chapter Test Flashcards

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buyers of stocks pay 10% of the cost of the stock when they make the purchase.

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On Margin

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the period of economic hard times following the Stock Market Crash lasted 1929 - 1941

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Great Depression

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unable to pay debts

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Bankrupt

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places where the hungry could get a free meal

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Soup Kitchens

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projects built by the government for public use

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Public works

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clusters of shacks where the homeless lived

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Hoovervilles

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group of veterans that marched at Washington D.C. during the depression waiting for their Bonus Payment from WWI (Bonus Expeditionary Force)

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Bonus Army

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panicked traders sold 13 million shares of stock on October 24, 1929

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Black Thursday

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stock prices fell drastically and there were no buyers for the stock October 29 1929

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Black Tuesday

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a person is responsible for themselves (Hoover’s Policy)

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Rugged Individualism

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helped the poor and unemployed set up Soup Kitchens

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Young Men’s Christian Association

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reduce unemployment and increase purchasing power through the construction of highways and public building ($500 million was put in) and built Boulder Dam

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Public Works Program

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Hoover’s new govenment sponsored financial institution whose purpose lend to banks and financial institutions. $2 Billion was lent

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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banks were closed for 4 days by FDR during the depression

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Bank Holiday

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FDR’s comforting chats by a fire during the Great Depression

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Fireside Chats

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the first 100 days of FDR’s presidency where 15 laws were passed

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Hundred Days

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the program of FDR to end the Great Depression (Relief, Recovery, Reform)

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New Deal

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a process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiate with management for a contract

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Collective Bargaining

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a sum o money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire

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pension

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spending by government greater than its income

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deficit spending

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the total amount of money that the government of a country owes to companies countries etc

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National Debt

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he 32nd president who helped the U.S. get through the Great Depression and proposed the New Deal

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FDR

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senator from Louisiana AKA “Kingfish”who believed that the rich should be heavily taxed

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Huey Long

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California Doctor who proposed that everyone over 60 should get a $200 pension each month

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Francis Townshend

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priest from Detroit who criticized FDR for not taking action against banker and rich investors

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Charles Coughlin

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a group of very smart people who helped FDR plan his New Deal

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Brain Trust

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first woman to hold cabinet post - secretary of labor

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Frances Perkin

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would decide which banks were safe to re-open

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Emergency Banking Act

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1933 headed by Harry Hopkins (social worker). Employed single men from 18 to 25 to plant trees, build bridges and parks earning $1 a day

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Civilian Conservation Corperation

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1935, Harry Hopkins’ idea to build hospitals, schools, parks, playgrounds, and airports

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Works Progress Administration

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Built the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington

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Public Works Administration

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paid farmers to not grow certain crops - smaller harvest - higher prices (supply and demand principle)

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

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loaned money to extend electrical lines to rural areas

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Rural Electrification Administration

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dust storms due to severe drought from Texas to the Dakotas for 5 years

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Dust Bowl

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moved from job to job (farming jobs)

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migrant workers

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group of black leaders, unofficial group of advisors to the President

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Black Cabinet

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the rights due to all people (voting)

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civil rights

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1924 Native Americans were granted citizenship

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Indian New Deal

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supported organized labor movement, civil rights unit, and worked tirelessly for the poor

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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educator for the Black Cabinet who worked for a Florida College

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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black singer who wasn’t allowed to sing, at the Daughter s of the American Revolution friends with Eleanor Roosevelt

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Marion Anderson

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commissioner of Indian Affairs

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John Collier

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wrote “Grapes of Wrath” about migrant workers

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John Steinbeck

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Harvard Economist form the Black Cabinet

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Weaver

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state department of the Black Cabinet

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Ralph Bunche

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white photographer who took pictures of poor farmers

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Margaret Bourke

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took griping photos of migrant workers

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Dorothea Lange

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head of mine workers who broke away from the AFL, and formed the CIO

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John Lewis

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strike where groups of people take unauthorized possession of a work place by sitting down and stop all machines + refuse to leave the factory

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Sit Down Strike

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it protected workers from unfair management practices, allowed collective bargaining, and set up minimum wage

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Wagner Act/National Labor Relations Act

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head of the garment workers apart of the CIO

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Dubinsky

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came up with sit down strikes and social security it broke away from the AFL which it only used skilled workers

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Congress of Industrial Organizations

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head of the needle workers apart of the CIO

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Hillman

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established minimum wage ($.25/hour) , overtime pay (over 44 hours), youth employment standards etc

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Fair Labor Standards Act

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