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Great Depression Flashcards

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Perkins

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First female cabinet leader; secretary of labor

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FDR used ___________ chats to reach and comfort the American people.

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Fireside

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Dowjones

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Tells the value of leading industries in the stock market

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Hayley- Scott Tariff

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Tax on imported goods meant to help American workers

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__________ spending is when the government spends more than they receive in taxes

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Deficit

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The depression occurred _________, not only in the US

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Globally

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Despite the Efforts of Roosevelt, Americans didn’t fully recover from the Depression until we went to _____ in 1941

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War

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By 1933, ________ had reached 25%

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Unemployment

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Hooverville

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Name given to shanty towns built around cities during the depression

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Roosevelt

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Winner of the 1932 election

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Total value of goods and services a country produces

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GNP

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Blacks faced increased ________ when jobs became scarce

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Segregation

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Train cars

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Americans hitched rides in these to travel in search of work

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Huey Long

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Wanted to redistribute wealth to the poor, a critic of FDR

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Stock market crash

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Marked the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929

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WPA, TVA, AND NRA WERE _____________ designed to get the economy moving

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Government Agencies

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Civil Rights

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Guaranteed by the government

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Taking chances in the stock market

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Speculation

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FDIC

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Guaranteed individual bank accounts to restore faith in the banking system

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Roosevelt promised a “________ ________” for the American people

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New Deal

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The middle of the US turned to a ________ due to drought and poor farming techniques

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Dustbowl

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Payroll taxes

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Come right out of your pay checks

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FDR tried to “pack” the ____________ Court with his supporters

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Supreme

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Traveled the country to meet with Americans affected by the Depression

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Occurs when a person or company can’t pay their debts

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Bankruptcy

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Hoover hoped that ___________ action by business could pull America through the Depression

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Voluntary

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The Depression may have reached its lowest point when a group of WW1 __________were injured during a protest in Washington

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Veterans

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James Braddock

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Shocked the world and won the heavy weight title in 1935

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Women

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Accused of taking jobs from men during the a Depression

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Migrant Workers

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Travel form town to town seeking work

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Hoover

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President during the early years of the depression

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Banks

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Closed when they could not return their depositors money

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We have nothIng to fear but ________ itself

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Fear

33
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“Brother, Can You Spare a ________?”

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Dime

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