Great Depression and New Deal Flashcards
What were the causes of the crash?
- Uneven __________ of income.
- Stock market ___________.
- Excessive use of ______
- ______________ of consumer goods
- ____ farm economy
- ___ policies
- ______ economic problems
- distribution
- speculation
- credit
- overproduction
- weak
- government
- global
Herbert Hoover’s Policies
- __________ would soon return
- Gov. assistance would destroy ____-________.
- tried to balance ______
- Americans believed in what?
- prosperity
- self-reliance
- budget
- rugged individualism
Hawley-Smoot Tariff 1930
-_______ in history
-highest
New Deal Philosophy
- Willing to experiment with political ________
- _______ is economic problem
- solutions
- poverty
Brain Trust and Other Advisors
- group of __________ __________
- Who was the first women cabinet member?
- Who were advisors?
- university professors
- Frances Perkins
- Harold Ickes/Hopkins
First Hundred Days
-Congress passed into law every _______
-request
Bank Holiday
- First action by ___
- President ordered solvent banks ______
- FDR
- closed
Industrial Recovery Program
- National Recovery Admin. were for?
- Schecter v. US did what?
- fair wages and hours for labor
- illegally regulated commerce
Social Security Act
- ___ ________ program
- _______ ________ to retired persons over age of 65
- Suggested by who?
- Didn’t include what?
- fed. insurance
- monthly payments
- Frances Townsend
- health insurance
Huey Long
-“____” annul income 5000, paid by ______ _____
-Share Our Wealth program; taxing wealthy
Supreme Court
-Declared programs as what?
-unconstituitonal
Court-reorganization Plan
- What bill?
- add up to _ more justices to court
- Court-packing bill
- 6
Rise of Unions
- NIRA acronym for?
- Which act?
- leagalized what?
- Union membership did what?
- National Industrial Recovery Act
- Wagner Act
- labor unions
- increased
Last Phase of New Deal
- WW1 ended what?
- Expanded what?
- depression
- fed. gov.
Keynsian Economics
-Deficit ________ was acceptable
-spending
Life During Depression
- Who?
- What was increased?
- women
- self-importance
Dust Bowl Farmers
- Who migrated to west California?
- What book did John Steinback publish in 1939?
- “Okies”
- The Grapes of Wrath
African Americans
- What was the Scottsboro Case?
- Began voting how for the first time?
- incentive to move north
- democratic
Mexican-Americans
-joined what?
-labor unions