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what were Voluntary Acts

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Hoover requested from business leaders to not reduce their wages/ not sack them

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how many people unemployed in Detroit

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50%

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what did the tax cuts do

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reduced govt. spending from 10 billion to 8.7 billion

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how much were tax cuts

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160 million

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how many people unemployed nationwide

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14 million unemployed- 25%

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what was a hooverville

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shanty town, large settlements consisting of poor quality housing, built during G. Depression named after Herbert Hoover

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why were public work schemes a fail

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insufficient funding low wages

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how much were public work schemes

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423 million

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what happened at the Bonus Marchers

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  • Soldiers and veterans wanted war bonus of 500 earlier
  • H. Hoover didn’t want to meet with them so he sent G. Macarthur who used tear gas, guns, tanks- killing 2 children. Hoover later publicly thanked god that the US knew how to deal w/ mobs. McArthur called them anarchists and Hoover failed to criticise that
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why was the farmers board a fail

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didn’t do much as there as insufficient funding

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who were the bonus marchers

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15,000 soldiers and veterans with wives and children

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where was the bonus march

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peaceful march to Washington D.C

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how much did Average farm production drop by

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40%

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when was the federal home loan bank act

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1931

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when was the Dust Bowl

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1930 onwards

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when was the bonus marches

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1932

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17
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what did tariffs cause

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tariff war- ppl not able to sell their products abroads- profits fell- international trade fell- lengthened and deepened Great Depression

18
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give a name of a tariff

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Hawley- Smoot Tariff in 1930

19
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how much was the tariff placed on american products

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60%

20
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who were affected by the Dust Bowl

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farmers

21
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how many banks were bankrupt in 1933

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5000

22
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what was a soup kitchen

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set up to feed hungry men, woman and children. Served soup and bread

23
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what did teh RFC do

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helped big businesses and banks and helped keep money circulating in the system

24
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what happened at the Dust Bowl

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series of severe droughts and unsafe methods of farming bc of overproduction meant soil was eroded and ppl couldnt grow crops. Farmers lost profits and became bankrupt. Became hobos- migrated to California- lived in Hoovervilles

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wages of American families

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50% of families have an income of less than 2000 a year

26
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where was the dust bowl

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Texas
Oaklahoma
Arkansas
New Mexico
Cororado

27
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describe FDR’s campaign

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20,800 km
- 16 speeches
- 60 speeches

28
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how much did govt. spending drop by

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10 billion to 8.7 billion

29
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how much did USA’s trade drop by

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10 billion to 3 billion

30
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what were public work schemes

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set up to provide immediate, short term jobs in construction
eg. Hoover Dam

31
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how much did average farm wages drop by

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60%

32
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what was the federal home loan bank act

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reduced mortgages and provided money in bank

33
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what happened as a result of the treatment of the Bonus Marchers

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  1. Hoover was regarded as uncaring
  2. destroyed his reputation
  3. didn’t want to help his ppl
  4. unsympathetic
34
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what did the farmers board do

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bought a surplus amount of produce to help stabilize prices and to help keep farmers in farms

35
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what was blocking the garner- wagner bill

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2.1 billion to creation of jobs

36
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when was the garner- wagner bill

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1932

37
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what were Hoover’s beliefs

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  • ‘prosperity around the corner’
  • rugged individualism therefore didnt believe that the govt. should provide much help to ppl
  • denial that there isn’t anything wrong w/ American economy
    4. Laissez- faire- tarriffs
38
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why did FDR win presidential election

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  • New Deal
  • Excellent speaker and persuasive
  • excellent campaign
  • successful governor of NY- introduced public work schemes
  • repeal Volstead Act
  • secretary of the naval in the govt so knew about politics
  • govt, played a more active role economy
    -media used effectively
    -
39
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what did Hoover set up

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  1. RFC
  2. farmers board
  3. public work schemes
  4. tax cuts
  5. tarriffs
  6. voluntary acts
  7. federal home loan bank act
  8. blocked garner. wagner bill
40
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why did Hoover lose the presidential election

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  • refused to acknowledge there was a problem
  • tariffs
  • public work schemes were short-term/ low wages
  • blocked Garner- Wagner
  • not enough funds to farmers
  • rugged individualism
  • treatment of bonus marchers
  • tax cuts
  • RFC
  • poor skills of speech and no campaigning

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