clios notes gd nd

Question 1

5 causes of gd

Answer 1

unregulated financial institutions, overproduction, high tariffs, maldistribution of wealth, bad monetary policies

Question 2

banks and stock market; unstable groups took money

Answer 2

unregulated financial institutions

Question 3

when investors borrow money from broker to buy stocks. resulted in overvalued stocks

Answer 3

on margin

Question 4

a nickname for 10/29/29, when many pulled out of stocks

Answer 4

black tuesday

Question 5

when companies make too much or consumers buy too little

Answer 5

overproduction/underconsumption

Question 6

passed in the 20s and 30s to protect american business

Answer 6

high tariffs

Question 7

an act used to protect american business but instead resulted in a trade war

Answer 7

smoot-hawley tariff act

Question 8

the rich and poor gap was wide in 20s, and wealthy can only consume so much

Answer 8

maldistribution of wealth

Question 9

the fed implemented these (like more expensive borrowing), making depression worse

Answer 9

bad monetary policies

Question 10

a result of farmers planting on thin and dry soil. created dust storms after windy drought

Answer 10

dust bowl

Question 11

people from oklahoma and arkansas respectively. most headed west to escape dust bowl

Answer 11

okies and arkies

Question 12

folk singer-songwriter who mostly wrote about socialism and anti-fascism

Answer 12

woodie guthrie

Question 13

an american realist novel related to the south in the gd. written by john steinbeck

Answer 13

the grapes of wrath

Question 14

he wrote the grapes of wrath

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john steinbeck

Question 15

ran for cali gov to eliminate poverty

Answer 15

upton sinclair

Question 16

conservative republican president from 29-33

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herbert hoover

Question 17

corp made by hoover to loan businesses money

Answer 17

reconstruction finance corperation (rfc)

Question 18

homeless encampments/shantytowns named to mock hoover

Answer 18

hoovervilles

Question 19

president from 33-45 who solved lots of gd problems

Answer 19

franklin roosevelt (fdr)

Question 20

the first 3 months of fdrs presidency in which congress was very active. 15 major programs were passed

Answer 20

first hundred days

Question 21

the second stage (35-36) of fdrs new deal programs

Answer 21

second new deal

Question 22

the 3 Rs fdr wanted to solve with the new deal programs

Answer 22

relief, reform, recovery

Question 23

this, designed to end bank runs, declared a bank holiday and gave federal cash to struggling banks

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emergency banking relief act

Question 24

this shut down bank systems for a week via emergency banking relief act

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bank holiday

Question 25

this set wages/prices for businesses and gave workers more rights

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national industrial recovery act

Question 26

an agency designed to restrict market manipulation and regulate the market

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securities and exchange comission

Question 27

paid farmers to not plant and kill livestock to reduce supply and raise prices

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agricultural adjustment act

Question 28

this funded both public works and art

Answer 28

works progress administration

Question 29

this gave insurance against unemployment (and created the SS program)

Answer 29

social security act

Question 30

helped workers with labor actions and grievances

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national labor relations board

Question 31

built flood control dams and gave tennessee hydroelectric powers

Answer 31

tennessee valley authority

Question 32

part of the glass-steagall act which gave government insurance of bank deposits

Answer 32

federal deposit and insurance corperation

Question 33

this created the federal deposit & insurance corp and separated types of banking

Answer 33

glass-steagall act

Question 34

this gave $500 million of direct relief to the poor

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federal emergency relief act

Question 35

allowed collective bargaining and unions

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wagner act

Question 36

when workers bargain as a group

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collective bargaining

Question 37

gave federal public work jobs for 250,000 men

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civilian conservation corps

Question 38

created a plan to give everyone over 60 extra pension

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francis townshend

Question 39

believed the entire bank system needed to be reformed

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father charles coughlin

Question 40

he wanted the ‘share our wealth’ program

Answer 40

huey long

Question 41

huey long’s program that distributed money evenly among people

Answer 41

share our wealth

Question 42

share our wealth’s slogan

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every man king

Question 43

the main right-leaning critic of fdr’s plan

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supreme court

Question 44

they wanted lower taxes and less regulations. critics of fdr’s plans

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american liberty league

Question 45

the more aggressive counterpart of the AFL that used strikes

Answer 45

congress of industrial organizations

Question 46

the less aggressive union that used strikes as a last resort

Answer 46

american federation of labor

Question 47

primarily used by CIO to get workers rights

Answer 47

strikes