Great Depression Revision Flashcards
Social Security System
Hoovervilles
Hundred-days
Twenty-first Amendment
New Deal
Business Deal
National Debt
Dow Jowes Industrial Average
Tennessee Valley Authority
Hawley-Smoot Tarriff
Dust Bowl
21st Amendment
Court Packing Fiasco
Throughout most of the 1920’s, what did Americans believe about prosperity?
What signs might have indicated the economy was unstable?
How did the 1932 presidential election change the way Americans viewed the federal government?
What did Hoover believe was the best way to end the Depression?
What was the fundamental disagreement between the candidates in the 1932 presidential election?
What did some people agree to do when a foreclosed farm was auctioned?
What was one goal of the repeal of Prohibition?
Why did FDR declare a “bank holiday” early in his administration?
What criticism did many Progressives make of the New Deal?
Why did FDR cut back on expensive relief programs in 1937?
Although the New Deal met with some success, it overwhelming gave people a sense of ____
Who won the election of 1936? By how much?
To whom did New Deal job programs give strong preference?
Under New Deal legislation, what happened to working conditions for domestic workers?
Why did Roosevelt refuse to support strong anti-lynching legislation?
Who mainly criticized the New Deal as being socialistic?
1928 Election
Speculation
What were the warning signs of an unsound economy?
