Great Depression

Question 1

Buying on margin

Answer 1

10% down on stocks and 90% borrowed

Major cause of market crash of 1929

Question 2

Percent of unemployment after depression of 1929

Answer 2

25%

Question 3

Hoovervilles

Answer 3

Tent city’s people lived in during the 1929 economic crisis

Question 4

Worst year of the Great Depression/ worst economic year in American history

Answer 4

1932

Question 5

What was FDR’s relation to TR

Answer 5

TRs younger cousin

Question 6

Everyone thought what about young FDR

Answer 6

He was a rich boy cousin of TR which is why he got the jobs he did

Question 7

Two things that changed FDR’s life

Answer 7

Married his cousin Eleanor

Contracts polio

Question 8

When did FDR contract polio

Answer 8

Summer 1921

Question 9

3 ways polio changed him( FDR)

Answer 9

Being in a wheelchair

Warm springs Georgia

People abandon him

Question 10

In 1928 FDR is —-

Answer 10

Governer of ny. Watches Hoover fuck up

Question 11

FDR elected in—-

Answer 11

1932

Question 12

21st amendment

Answer 12

Makes liquor legal again

Question 13

Radio chats where FDR would explain his policies and ideas. Made people feel close to him.

Answer 13

Fireside chats

Question 14

FDR would close banks for a few days so that no transactions would occur and that way he could get a handle on the situation and make changes

Answer 14

Bank holidays

Question 15

FDIC

Answer 15

Federal deposit insurance corporation

Gaurenteed a persons money in the bank up to a certain amount

Question 16

HOLC

Answer 16

Home owners loan corporation

Farm & home owners would get help financing existing mortgages to keep homes and farms

Question 17

fSA federal securities act

Answer 17

Restructured the stock market so hopefully it would no crash

Question 18

NIRA or NRA

Answer 18

National industrial recovery act 
Established four things 
Fair bus practices
Price setting 
Minimum wage
Unions the right to collective bargaining ( overturned by supreme c)

Question 19

AAA

Answer 19

Agricultural adjustment act

Gov. Controlled food grown by farmers and subsidized crops

Question 20

TVA

Answer 20

Tennessee valley authority

Brought power to south east. Hydroelectric power plants & dams

Question 21

CCC

Answer 21

Civilian Conservation corps.

Gave young men jobs replanting forests

Question 22

3 causes to Great Depression

Answer 22

1) overproduction of goods
2) overproduction of farming ( dust bowl )
3) stock market crash

Question 23

PWA

Answer 23

Public works administration

Gave jobs building roads, sewers, public buildings

Question 24

How much did CCC pay

Answer 24

1 dollar a day

Question 25

CCC gave how many jobs

Answer 25

Over 2 million

Question 26

WPA

Answer 26

Works progress administration Gave construction jobs but also set of jobs for artists

Question 27

Works progress administration | 2 sub sets

Answer 27

Federal writers project Federal theater project

Question 28

Wagner act

Answer 28

Supported three things for unions Right to organize Collective bargaining Prevented a black list

Question 29

Out of the Wagner act came what

Answer 29

NLRB | National labor relations board- enforces Wagner act idea

Question 30

CIO And who formed it For who

Answer 30

Congress of industrial organizations John L. Lewis Unskilled workers

Question 31

Indian reorganization act.

Answer 31

Ended the Dawes act. Allowed Indians to live on own land encouraged tribal self government

Question 32

Good neighbor policy

Answer 32

Us will stay out of Latin American affairs

Question 33

Fair labor standards act

Answer 33

44 hour work week Outlaws child labor( under 16) Minimum wage reinstalled France's Perkins

Question 34

Woman who witnesses triangle fires and became first woman appointed to presidents cabinet

Answer 34

Frances Perkins Secretary of labor

Question 35

Play about labor unions that led to the cutting of funding to the federal theater project

Answer 35

Cradle will rock

Question 36

Who runs for gov. Of California in 1934

Answer 36

Upton Sinclair

Question 37

When does Hitler officially take over Germany

Answer 37

Jan 30 1933

Question 38

Munich agreement

Answer 38

Give hitler the sudatin land if he promises not to take anything else

Question 39

What event officialy starts world war 3

Answer 39

Germany invaded Poland

Question 40

Date Germany invades Poland

Answer 40

Sept. 1 1939

Question 41

America first

Answer 41

Isolationist group Most well know member Charles Lindberg

Question 42

First person to fly to Europe

Answer 42

Charles Lindberg

Question 43

Name of the plane Lindbergh flew to Europe

Answer 43

Spirit of at. Louis

Question 44

First peacetime draft in American history

Answer 44

1940 selective training and service act

Question 45

1940 FDR elected- significance

Answer 45

3rd time

Question 46

1041 lend lease program

Answer 46

Gives tools of war to Europe Arsenal of democracy

Question 47

A Philip randolf

Answer 47

Asks FDR to pass law saying that blacks have to get jobs in the lend lease / war effort

Question 48

June 1941 Hitler makes the mother of all mistakes

Answer 48

Attacks Russia