GD-ND Flashcards

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This experiment lasted until 1933, and would have made folks even more depressed if it weren’t for bootleggers

A

Prohibition

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Term for FDR’s attempt to get his way when one branch of the government held up some of his New Deal programs

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court packing

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The government completely changed from this policy during the New Deal and got a lot more involved in people’s everyday lives

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Laissez Faire

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How FDR told America about his ideas to fix the problems of the Depression

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Fireside chats

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New Deal program implemented to help the elderly, disabled, and others who could not work

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Social Security

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This program actually paid farmers not to grow things

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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

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Nickname for WWI veterans who wanted help from Congress

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Bonus Army

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Made the Great Depression even more depressing for farmer’s on the plains

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Dust Bowl

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When the government assumes the responsibility of taking care of certain citizens who cannot take care of themselves

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Welfare state

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Hoover hoped money would do this and reach the needy through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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Trickle-down

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Nickname for the farmers who moved west from the Dust Bowl

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Okies

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Which New Deal had the most programs last through to the present day?

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Second New Deal

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Name of the ideas FDR tried out to fix the Depression, but both of them only worked a little

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New Deal

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Nickname for the shantytowns the homeless built to live in after getting evicted during the Depression

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Hoovervilles

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What afflicted FDR and paralyzed him?

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Polio

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FDR’s favorite New Deal program, it put more than 2 million men on the job

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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Q

Name of the highest tariff ever, which helped start the Great Depression

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff

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Q

1/4 of Americans suffered from this during the Great Depression

A

Unemployment

19
Q

The Securities and Exchange Commission was created to correct problems in this to prevent another crash

A

Stock market

20
Q

October 29, 1929

A

Black Tuesday

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2nd New Deal idea to ensure workers had a voice, through collective bargaining, at their jobs

A

Wagner Act

22
Q

Most popular type of home entertainment during the 1930’s, and how FDR primarily communicated with the American people

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Idea or belief that folks should not look to the government for help, they should help themselves if they had problems

A

individualism

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The only thing we needed to be afraid of, according to FDR in his first speech as President

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What finally ended the Great Depression once and for all
World War II
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State where the effort to electrify rural areas began through a New Deal program
Tennessee
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Unfairly blamed for the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
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How many days it took FDR and Congress to start the 1st New Deal solutions
One hundred days
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New Deal programs that exist
Social Security Wagner Act **Rural Electrification Administration (REA) *National Labor Relations Board *Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) *Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)