Ch.23 pt.1

Question 1

Smoot Hawley Tariffs

Answer 1

raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.

Question 2

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Answer 2

provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses

Question 3

Hooversvilles and Hoover Blankets

Answer 3

the homeless were called hoover blankets and would leave their empty pockets hanging

Question 4

The Bonus Army Incidents

Answer 4

bonus army was a group of unemployed men and they hitchhiked to washington and camped next to the capitol until their camp got burned by army troops

Question 5

Fireside Chats

Answer 5

the president would use the radio and tell the people his plans

Question 6

Bank Holiday

Answer 6

where banks would be closed so they could recoop economically

Question 7

glass- steagall act/ FDIC

Answer 7

law that created the FDIC which ensured deposit up to $2500 and prohibited banks from making risky calls.

Question 8

national recovery admin )NRA)

Answer 8

federal agency established to promote industrial recovery during great depression.

Question 9

civilian conservation corps (CCC)

Answer 9

public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal.

Question 10

agrcultural adjustment act (AAA)

Answer 10

was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock

Question 11

public works admin (PWA) and (CWA)

Answer 11

part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States