Ch. 15 And 14 Test Flashcards
What troubles happened to make the economy go down
Industries, farm, consumers, credit, and disparity of income
Why where industries a part of the economic troubles
They overproduced
Why were farms a part of the economic struggles
The produce more than that what they could sell
Where consumers a part of the economic struggles
Americans are buying less
Why was credit part of the economic struggles
Americans were going into debt
Why was disparity of income a part of the economic struggles
The income gap from the rich and the poor
Who was elected in 1928
Herbert Hoover
What is a bull market
A market where stock prices are rising
What is a bear market
Stock prices are falling
What was black Tuesday
When banks closed because everyone tried to get their money all at once
What day did black Tuesday occur
October 29, 1929
When was the great depression and what was it
It was from 1929 to 1941; where the economy plummeted
What where shantytowns
Shacks for the homeless that were built; also called Hooverville
What was the dust bowl
1933 through 1936, from the Dakotas to Texas
What are factors of the dust bowl
Drought, over production of crops, and Highwinds
What were the nickname given to people in Oklahoma
Okies
Rugged individualism
People take care of themselves and not depend on the government
Boulder dam
Outside of Las Vegas, built in 1929
Bonus army
World War I veterans that wanted their bonus early
Who won the election of 1932
Franklin Roosevelt
What was the new deal
A program to help with the great depression
Hundred days
Where Congress passed the most pieces of legislative called the new deal
Fireside chats
Programs were Theodore Roosevelt would get on air and speak to people
21st amendment
Ended prohibition
FDIC
FEderal deposits insurance corperation; provided insurance for peoples money in their accounts
S EC
Securities and exchange commission; are you laded the stock market, make sure people couldn’t manipulate it
AAA
Agricultural adjustment act; Page farmers not to produce as much, would raise their prices
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority; set up to help poor areas of the Tennessee Valley
CCC
Civilian conservation corps ; put young man on construction projects to help
Second hundred days
Made because the first hundred days didn’t work
Who won the election of 1936
FDR
WPA
Works progress administration; created to give people jobs
NYA
National youth administration; traded to produce education, jobs, and counseling for young ones
NLRA
National Labour relations act; mediate disputes between labor/management
FLSA
Fair labor standards act; Increase minimum-wage, established 40 hour work week, banned child labor
SSA
Social Security act; retirement pension for the elderly
Frances Perkins
First female cabinet member
Mary Bethune
First black cabinet member
Black cabinet
Group of black advisors advise FDR about African-Americans
Gone with the wind
1939; most profitable movie of all time
Snow White and the seven dwarfs
1937; Disney animation
The wizard of oz
1939
The war of the worlds
Came out October 30, 1938, was about aliens taking over the earth
Grant would
Painted American Gothic
Woody Guthrie
This land is your land
Richard Wright
African-American who wrote native son
John Steinbeck
Wrote the grapes of wrath
