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Great Depression and FDR Flashcards

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Buying on margin

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Paying with credit

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AAA

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Agriculture Adjustment Act, 1933 - Payed farmers not to farm to stop overproduction: Relief, Recovery

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Hoovervilles

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Nickname for shantytowns

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Federal Reserve

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Federal banking authority

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CCC

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Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933 - Cut down unemployment through manual labor: Reform

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margin call

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Demand by brokers that investors pay back loans made on stocks purchased by margin

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Dust Bowl

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Southern plains damaged by drought and duststorms

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EBA

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Emergency Banking Act, 1933 - A National Bank Holiday to get more money to banks: Relief

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Causes of Great Depression

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  1. Unequal distribution of wealth 2. High tariffs and war debt 3.Overproduction in industry 4. Farm overproduction 5. Election: Hoover v. Smith 6. Federal Reserve monetary policy 7. Stock Market crash
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Tariffs

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A tax on imports or exports

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FDIC

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 1933 - Insures money in the banks: Reform

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FHA

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Federal Housing Administration, 1934 - Ensured house loans and mortgages: Recovery, Reform

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Bank Holiday

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FDR closed the banks to get them more money so people would trust in them again

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Social Liberalism

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an ideology that believes the state should establish rules and regulations to extend personal rights and freedoms

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2nd new deal

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Open criticism, reform, social security

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Volstead Act

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Legalize and tax alcohol

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NLRB

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National Labor Relations Board, 1934 - Enforces that companies cannot enforce bans on employees protesting: Reform

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Court packing

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FDR’s plan to add new justices to the supreme court that were in favor of the New Deal

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Fireside chats

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FDR shared with the nation what was happening over radio

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NRA

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National Recovery Administration, 1933 - set minimum wages and working hours

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Herbert Hoover

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The president during the stock market crash; lassez faire approach to govt

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NYA

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National Youth Administration, 1935 - Provided work and education to people ages 6-25: Reform

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Default

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Failure to pay

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Unequal distribution of wealth

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rural poverty, credit, wealth gap, no savings

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Bonus Army

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WWI veterans who wanted their promised bonus early

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REA

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Rural Electrification Administration, 1935 - Provide electricity in rural areas: Relief, Reform

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High tariffs and war debt

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Europe owed US money but couldn’t pay

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Overproduction

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Factories produced products but no one was buying so were forced to lay people off, farm incomes dropped due to overproduction

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FDR

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32nd president, helped the American people out of the great depression

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SSB

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Social Security Board, 1935 - Provided funding for sick, disabled, elderly: Reform

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Election: Hoover v. Smith

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Govt. did not get involved in economy in the past

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TVA

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Tennessee Valley Authority, 1937 - Built dams, etc. in south: Relief, Recovery

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Federal Reserve Monetary Policy

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Created to stabilize economy, manipulates money supply to strength economy, did not help banks

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Stock Market Crash

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October 1929, over priced stocks, no safety net, massive fraud, margin buying

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WPA

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Works progress Administration, 1935 - Jobs for people who couldn’t find them, built hospitals, schools

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Constitutionality of New Deal

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Believed FDR had too much power, the govt was taking too much control

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Bank runs

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when a large number of customers withdraw their deposits at the same time

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American Liberty League

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political organization formed in 1934 by conservative democrats to oppose new deal and FDR’s election

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Relief, Reform and Recovery

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FDR’s objectives with his New Deal

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Safety nets

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For the economy

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First hundred Days

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15 major bills, closed banks, fireside chats

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Independent, humanitarium

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Huey Long

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Opposer to FDR, Radical populist

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1st New Deal

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Domestic programs implemented by FDR to help the US recover, relief , Recovery, increased govt. responsibility of Am. welfare

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