Chapter 25 Study Guide Flashcards
Up and down pattern in stocks
Buisness cycle
Who started the NYA and what is it
Eleanor Roosevelt and it was national youth administration for students to get jobs and stay in school
Who wrote music about loss and struggle and was a country singer
Woody Guthrie
What provided financial security for the elderly, disabled, children, and unemployed
Social security act
What was for unemployed citizens and didn’t have jobs
Second new deal
Who was an African American leader and educator.
Mary McLeod Bethune
What organized workers but not by skill level but industry
Congress of industrial organization
What helped unemployed with jobs on roads, bridges and airports
Works progress administration
What was purchasing stocks on credit, or with borrowed money
Buying on margin
Who was an author that was deeply affected by the Great Depression and wrote “The Grapes of Wrath”
John Steinbeck
What was the main cause of Great Depression
Over production of goods
Why did Herbert Hoover lose the election
Citizens lost confidence in Hoover
Lasting effects of the new deal
The social security act and FDA
