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Great Depression Flashcards

1
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Buying on margin

A

10% down on stocks and 90% borrowed

Major cause of market crash of 1929

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2
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Percent of unemployment after depression of 1929

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25%

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3
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Hoovervilles

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

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4
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Worst year of the Great Depression/ worst economic year in American history

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1932

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5
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What was FDR’s relation to TR

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TRs younger cousin

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6
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Everyone thought what about young FDR

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

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7
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Two things that changed FDR’s life

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Married his cousin Eleanor

Contracts polio

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8
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When did FDR contract polio

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Summer 1921

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9
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3 ways polio changed him( FDR)

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Being in a wheelchair

Warm springs Georgia

People abandon him

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10
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In 1928 FDR is —-

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Governer of ny. Watches Hoover fuck up

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11
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FDR elected in—-

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1932

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12
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21st amendment

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Makes liquor legal again

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13
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Radio chats where FDR would explain his policies and ideas. Made people feel close to him.

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Fireside chats

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14
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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

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Bank holidays

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15
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FDIC

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Federal deposit insurance corporation

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

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16
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HOLC

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Home owners loan corporation

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

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17
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fSA federal securities act

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Restructured the stock market so hopefully it would no crash

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18
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NIRA or NRA

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National industrial recovery act 
Established four things 
Fair bus practices
Price setting 
Minimum wage
Unions the right to collective bargaining ( overturned by supreme c)
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19
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AAA

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Agricultural adjustment act

Gov. Controlled food grown by farmers and subsidized crops

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20
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TVA

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Tennessee valley authority

Brought power to south east. Hydroelectric power plants & dams

21
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CCC

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Civilian Conservation corps.

Gave young men jobs replanting forests

22
Q

3 causes to Great Depression

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

23
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PWA

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Public works administration

Gave jobs building roads, sewers, public buildings

24
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How much did CCC pay

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1 dollar a day

25
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CCC gave how many jobs

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Over 2 million

26
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WPA

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Works progress administration

Gave construction jobs but also set of jobs for artists

27
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Works progress administration

2 sub sets

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Federal writers project

Federal theater project

28
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Wagner act

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Supported three things for unions

Right to organize
Collective bargaining
Prevented a black list

29
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Out of the Wagner act came what

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NLRB

National labor relations board- enforces Wagner act idea

30
Q

CIO

And who formed it

For who

A

Congress of industrial organizations

John L. Lewis

Unskilled workers

31
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Indian reorganization act.

A

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

32
Q

Good neighbor policy

A

Us will stay out of Latin American affairs

33
Q

Fair labor standards act

A

44 hour work week
Outlaws child labor( under 16)
Minimum wage reinstalled

France’s Perkins

34
Q

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

A

Frances Perkins

Secretary of labor

35
Q

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

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Cradle will rock

36
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Who runs for gov. Of California in 1934

A

Upton Sinclair

37
Q

When does Hitler officially take over Germany

A

Jan 30 1933

38
Q

Munich agreement

A

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

39
Q

What event officialy starts world war 3

A

Germany invaded Poland

40
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Date Germany invades Poland

A

Sept. 1 1939

41
Q

America first

A

Isolationist group

Most well know member
Charles Lindberg

42
Q

First person to fly to Europe

A

Charles Lindberg

43
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Name of the plane Lindbergh flew to Europe

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Spirit of at. Louis

44
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First peacetime draft in American history

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1940 selective training and service act

45
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1940 FDR elected- significance

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3rd time

46
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1041 lend lease program

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Gives tools of war to Europe

Arsenal of democracy

47
Q

A Philip randolf

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

48
Q

June 1941 Hitler makes the mother of all mistakes

A

Attacks Russia

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