Great Depression Flashcards
What was the goal of the TVA (Tennessee valley authority)
Develop the underdeveloped regions in America
They created a series of dams to control floods, prevent deforestation, and provide cheap electric power to rural countries
What was the new deal?
Social and economic legislation designed by Franklin Roosevelt
The dust bowl most likely impacted farmers because
There’s surplus was destroyed without any form of compensation
why did some disagree with the new deal from a social point of View?
1) social programs, possibly would never end once started leading to dependency on the government 2)contributes the national debt
True or false, Hitler and the Nazis were voted into power
True
what does A on the business cycle represent
Spark in economy, due to government, technological, or some other cause
What does B on the business cycle represent?
Hiring do to increase production
What does C on the business cycle represent?
Surplus of goods
What does D on the business cycle represent?
Firing due to business cuts
what does E/a represent on the business cycle?
Waiting for a response or a spark
What did the CWA do?
hired people and gave them jobs for improving roads and airports
What did WPA do?
employed individuals with artistic ability
What did CCC do
clearing forests, beaches and repairing parks
What did AAA do?
Paid farmers to destroy crops
What did the SSA (Social Security act) do?
Money for older population, not able to work
The new deal programs helped America by
Providing jobs that allowed Americans SSI
The best argument for defective segregated area of NJ would be
Oak tree Road
why would support for communism increase in the 1930s?
People were willing to listen to change, (always possible, when leaders “fail”)
why did standard oil increase?
Increase demand for driving consumes more gas
why did Ford jump from 5 to 9?
Industry benefits from car production
sheer metal over entire six days
Impact of car sales (metal needed to make cars)
What did SEC do?
allowed Americans to get their deposits (insured, the money and banks)
What are Okies?
Okies arm, migrant workers who went to California for work
from the owners point of you, when school was removed from the equation for producing workers became
Mundane
example of skilled work in class
Making military weapons
what presented the biggest problem for business factory owners during the 1920s
How to control ones workforce
what does a revolutionary Vanguard do?
Activate the revolution
what was the Texas heartbeat law?
A physician has a test for a fetal heartbeat or cardiac activity before performing an abortion and prohibits. Abortion is fetal heartbeat is detected.
What do they call homosexuals in the 1920s
Invert
True or false the great depression was caused by the stock market crash of 1929
False; it was correlated with it not caused by it
Why did farmers have a depression in the 1920s
farmers received a boom during World War I, which caused them to buy expensive machinery, that they couldn’t afford and put them into debt. Additionally, many farmers went into debt to finance the expansion, and then a combination of overproduction in low prices meant it off in their farms were foreclosed upon.
What made the great depression the GREAT depression
In the great depression, the great depression with massive unemployment and accompanying hardship, and this didn’t actually begin until like 1930 or 1931
Name a cause of the great depression
Americas weak banking system
What did the PWA
Appropriated to build things like roads and bridges
