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8th grade ch 23- the great depression Flashcards

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signs of weakness in the 20s (3)

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  • older industries (mining, railroads, clothing manufacturing) were in decline
  • agriculture was suffering
  • lots of margin buyers (gambling) in stocks
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stock market peak and decline5

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  • peak: sept. 1929
  • decline: oct 3, 1929
  • brokers who bought on money asked for their loans
  • investors who couldn’t pay loans had to sell stocks (caused prices to drop more)
  • oct 29, 1929: black tuesday: stock market crumbled (marked start of great depression)
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overproduction2

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  • situation in which the supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demand
  • affected housing, automobiles, and goods
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crisis in banking2

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  • banks that loaned farmers money went out of business when farms failed
  • many people rushed to bank to withdraw their savings after market crashed
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depression cycle 5

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  1. ) stock market crashed (people lose money)
  2. ) people unable to buy what factories are producing, factory workers lose their jobs
  3. ) unemployed have less money to buy goods
  4. ) declining sales lead to more closings and layoffs
  5. ) go back to #2
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bankruptcy

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financial failure caused by a company’s inability to pay its debts

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influence to world3

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  • after ww1, european nations owed US lots of money
  • depression slowed down international trade, which caused countries to be unable to pay loans
  • investors cut back on loans to europe, causing europe to begin a depression
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default

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fail to repay their loans

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show of poverty4

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  • soup kitchens
  • sell apples or pencils
  • hop freight trains to move (hobos)
  • homeless communities: hoovervilles
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impact on families4

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  • fathers had to leave or abandon families to find work
  • fewer people got married, fewer people had babies
  • children had more health problems
  • most children stopped attending school
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government aid4

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  • hoover’s advisers thought to do nothing, hoover disagreed
  • hoover told states to make public projects and soup kitchens to help the jobless
  • formed the reconstruction finance corporation to fund businesses like banks, insurance com, and railroads
  • situation continued to worsen
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bonus

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extra payment

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bonus army3

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  • veterans of ww1 who marched to washington to demand their payment of 1000 for fighting in ww1
  • government used violence to clear them out, killing and injuring the people
  • americans were outraged by this incident
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franklin d roosevelt2

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  • democrat, ran against hoover in 1932

- pledged “a new deal” for the americans

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bank holiday4

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  • first day in office, fdr declared a bank holiday to halt the nationwide bank failures
  • proposed an emergency banking relief act, which provided more careful government regulation of banks
  • delivered the first fireside chat (radio talk) that encouraged people to go put their money back in the banks
  • the next day, the banks reopened and people redeposited their savings
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goals of the new deal3

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  • relief for the jobless
  • economic recovery
  • reforms to prevent future depressions
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federal emergency relief administration

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granted funds to states so they could reopen shuttered relief industries

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programs to provide jobs2

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  • civilian conservation corps (ccc): hired city dwellers to work in american’s national wilderness
  • works progress administration (wpa): put people to work building or repairing public buildings like schools or post offices
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national recovery administration2

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  • kept prices stable while boosting employment and buying power
  • succeeded in raising prices but failed to improve the economy
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public works administration

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-granted money to build public works projects like tunnels and dams

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tennessee valley authority

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-built giant dams along the tennessee river to control flooding, provide electricity, and increase jobs

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preventing future depressions3

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  • truth-in-securities act; required corporations to inform the public about their stocks
  • federal deposit insurance corporation: protected bank depositors
  • federal power commission: helped control the oil and fas industries
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supreme court opposes2

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  • declared several new deal measures to be unconstitutional

- president tried to replace the justices with more liberal ones

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new deal critics

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  • conservatives thought new deal went too far in regulating businesses and restricting individual freedom
  • liberals thought it did not go far enough in helping the poor
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huey long

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  • argued that the government could end the depression immediately
  • wanted to tax the wealthy and distribute the money to the poor
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francis townsend

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called for a system of government pensions (retirement payments)

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charles coughlin

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used the radio to call to the government to take over the banks

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women in workplace3

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  • salesclerks and secretaries: little competition, less likely to lose job
  • teachers or librarians: higher competition
  • factory, maids, housekeepers: more likely to lose job or have wages cut
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eleanor roosevelt2

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  • spoke and traveled on FDR’s behalf

- campaigned for women’s rights

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blacks in depression2

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  • black sharecroppers lost their land

- couldn’t find work in north or south

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civil rights

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rights guaranteed in the constitution, especially voting and equal treatment under the law

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mary mcleod bethune

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member of the black cabinet, who advised the president on black issues

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marian anderson2

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  • black singer who was denied allowance to sing at the Daughters of American Revolution hall
  • eleanor roosevelt allowed her to sing at the lincoln memorial
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migrant workers

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people who travel from farm to farm picking crops

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mexicans in depression

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more whites were becoming migrant workers and so the government deported thousands of mexicans

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john collier

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commissioner of indian affairs who led the Indian New Deal

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native americans in depression3

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  • law in 1924 granted natives citizenship
  • indian new deal wanted to help natives find work and protect their land
  • Indian Reorganization Act of 1934: restricted tribal land sales (good) but couldn’t bring self-government
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one cause of dust bowl2

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  • new farming equipment removed the sod from the land which kept the soil in place
  • when rains failed, the soil blew away
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black blizzards

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dust storms that were very thick and dark

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effect of dust bowl2

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  • caused many okies to move west to california

- unable to buy land, had to compete with local workers to pick crops at low wages

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john steinbeck

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wrote the grapes of wrath that told about the harsh life during the depression

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arts of the depression3

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  • photographers and painters used the depression as a theme for their art
  • movies were meant to help people forget about their problems
  • radio was used for FDR’s fireside chats, music, comedy, and soap operas
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social security act3

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  • old age insurance: gave retired people a pension funded by a payroll tax
  • aid to dependent children: helped kids whose fathers were unable to support their family
  • did not benefit many african americans, migrant workers, and poor rural whites
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payroll tax

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tac that removes money directly from workers’ paychecks

45
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frances perkins

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first woman to serve in the cabinet who backed major labor reforms and drafted the social security act

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wagner act2

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  • guaranteed workers’ rights to organize into unions and prohibited unfair business practices, such as firing union members
  • upheld collective bargaining and helped rise union membership
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collective bargaining

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right of a union to negotiate wages and benefits for all of its members

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fair labor standards act3

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  • set minimum wages
  • established time-and-a-half payment for overtime work
  • ended child labor in some businesses
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john l lewis

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head of the united mine workers, formed the congress of industrial organization

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congress of industrial organization3

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  • umbrella organization consisted of many other unions
  • combined all the workers in a particular industry (skilled and nonskilled), unlike the american federation of labor
  • opened up union membership to more women and blacks
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sit down strike

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workers stay in the factory but stop production

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arguments against new deal4

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  • gave too much power to federal government
  • threaten individual freedom and free enterprise
  • worried about increase in nation’s debt
  • failed to end great depression
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deficit spending

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situation in which the government spends more money than it recieves in taxes

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supports for new deal5

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  • employed millions of jobless
  • ended banking crisis
  • reformed stock market
  • improved working conditions
  • restored faith in government

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