great depression terms and people

Question 1

(agricultural marketing act) this act established the .., a … for hard-pressed farmers

Answer 1

Federal Farm Board; lending bureau

Question 2

(agricultural marketing act) the act also aimed to help farmer’s help themselves through

Answer 2

new producers’ cooperatives

Question 3

(agricultural marketing act) as the depression worsened in 1930, the Board tried to bolster falling prices by …, but it was unable to cope with the …

Answer 3

buying up surpluses; flood of farm produce to market

Question 4

(Hawley-Smoot tariff) the … tariff in the peacetime history of the U.S., passed as a result of good old-fashioned … to the outside world, it smacked of ugly …

Answer 4

highest protective; horse trading; economic warfare

Question 5

(Hawley-Smoot tariff) contributed to america’s …., the tariff was raised to … on goods

Answer 5

economic isolationism; 60%

Question 6

(black tuesday) the dark panicky day of …. when over … shares of stock were .. on wall street. it was a trigger that helped bring on the Great Depression

Answer 6

October 20, 1929; 16,410,000; sold

Question 7

(hoovervilles) grim … where impoverished victims of the Great Depression slept under … and in …. their visibility and sarcastic name tarnished the reputation of the …

Answer 7

shantytowns; newspapers; makeshift tents; hoover administration

Question 8

(Reconstruction Finance Corporation- RFC) a … established under the Hoover administration in order to assist …, …, …, …., and …

Answer 8

government lending agency; insurance companies; banks; agricultural organizations; railroads; local governments

Question 9

(Reconstruction Finance Corporation- RFC) it was a precursor to … that grew out of the New Deal and symbolized a recognition by the Republicans that some … was required to address the Great Depression

Answer 9

later agencies; federal action

Question 10

(Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act) this law banned “..” or … and forbade federal courts from issuing … to … and …

Answer 10

yellow-dog; antiunion work contracts; injunctions; quash strikes; boycotts

Question 11

(Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act) it was an early piece of … federal legislation

Answer 11

labor-friendly

Question 12

(Bonus Army) officially known as the …, this rag-tag group of … veternans marched on … to demand immediate payment of bonuses earned during ww1

Answer 12

bonus expeditionary force (BEF); 20,000; washington

Question 13

(Bonus Army) general … dispersed the veterans with tear gas and bayonets

Answer 13

Douglas MacArthur

Question 14

(Bonus Army) The BEF formed a … in washington, posing a danger to …

Answer 14

hooverville; public health

Question 15

(Bonus Army) approx …. veterans were payed, the rest were forced to leave during the “…”

Answer 15

6,0000; Battle of Anacostia Flats

Question 16

(Alfred E. “Al” Smith) smith was the … nominee for the presidential election of … he was the governor of …

Answer 16

democratic; 1928; NY

Question 17

(Alfred E. “Al” Smith) smith greatly enjoyed …, a political setback, as the nation was still in the midst of …

Answer 17

alcohol; prohibition

Question 18

(brain trust) specialists in …, …, and …, many of them young …, who advised FDR and helped develop the policies of the …

Answer 18

law; economics; welfare; university professors; New Deal

Question 19

(New Deal) the economic and political policies of FDR’s administration in the 1930s, which aimed to solve the problems of the great depression by providing relief for the … and lau ching efforts to stimulate …

Answer 19

unemployed; economic recovery;

Question 20

(New Deal) the new deal bilt on reforms of the …. to expand greatly on american style ..

Answer 20

progressive era; welfare state

Question 21

(Hundred Days) the first hundred days of FDR’s administration, stretching from … t o …, when an unprecedented number of reform bills were passed by a Democratic congress to …

Answer 21

march 9; june 16, 1933; launch the New Deal

Question 22

(Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act) a law creating the …, which insured individual … and ended a century-long tradition of unstable .. that had reached a crisis in the great depression

Answer 22

federal deposit insurance corporation; bank deposits; banking;

Question 23

(civilian conservation corps-CCC) a government program created by Congress to hire … to improve the rural out of doors environment with such work as …, …, …, and maintaining …

Answer 23

young unemployed men; planting trees; fighting fires; draining swamps; national parks

Question 24

(civilian conservation corps-CCC) the CCC proved to be an important foundation for the post-WWII

Answer 24

environmental movement

Question 25

(National recovery administration- NRA) known by its critics as the "National Run Around," THe NRA was an early new deal program designed to assit .., .., and the ... through centralized ... that monitored ... and ... to distribute work and established codes for "..." to ensure that similar procedures were followed by all firms in any particular industrial sector

Answer 25

industry; labor; unemployed; planning mechanisms; workers' earnings; working hours; fair competition

Question 26

(agricultural adjustment administration-AAA) a new deal program designed to raise ... by paying farmers ...

Answer 26

agricultural prices; not to farm

Question 27

(agricultural adjustment administration-AAA) it was based on the assumption that higher prices would increase farmers' ... and thereby help alleviate the great Depression

Answer 27

purchasing power

Question 28

(agricultural adjustment administration-AAA) enabled farmers to have not only a fairer price but a more substational .... however it was defeated by the supreme court in 1936

Answer 28

share of the national income

Question 29

(dust bowl) grim nickname for the great plains region devastated by drought and dust storms iduring the 1930s. the disaster led to the .... of thousands of displaced ... and ...

Answer 29

migration into california "okies" "arkies"

Question 30

(Tennessee valley authority- TVA) one of the most revolutionary of the new deal public works projects, the TVA brought cheap ..., ..., ..., and ... to amerians in the tennessee valley

Answer 30

electric power; full employment; low-cost housing; environmental improvements

Question 31

(social security act) a flagship accomplishment of the New Deal, thsi law provided for ... and ... insurance financed by a ... on employers and employees. it had long remained a pillar of the "new deal order"

Answer 31

unemployment; old-age; payroll tax

Question 32

(wagner act) also known as the ..., this law protected the right of labor to ... and ... with employers and established the .. to monitor unfair ... On the part of employers

Answer 32

national labor relations act; organize in unions; bargain collectively; national labor relations board; labor practices

Question 33

(fair labor standards act) important new deal labor legislation that regulated ... and ... for workers involved in ..

Answer 33

minimum wages; maximum hours; interstate commerce

Question 34

(fair labor standards act) the law also outlawed labor by children under ...

Answer 34

sixteen

Question 35

(fair labor standards act) the exclusion of ..., ..., and ... workers meant that many blacks, mexican americans, and women- who were oconcentrated in these sectors- did not benefit from the act's protection

Answer 35

agricultural; service; domestic

Question 36

(congress of industrial organizations- CIO) a new-deal era labor organization that broke away from the .... in order to organize .... regardless of their particular economic sector or craft

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american federation of labor (AFL); unskilled industrial workers

Question 37

(congress of industrial organizations- CIO) the cio gave a great boost to ... in the midst of the great depression and durng world war ii. in 1955, hthe cio merged with the ...

Answer 37

labor organizing; afl

Question 38

(court-packing plan) franklin roosevelt's politically motivated and ill-fated scheme to add a new ustice to the supreme court for every ...

Answer 38

member over 770 who would not retire

Question 39

(court-packing plan) FDR's objective was to overcome the Court's

Answer 39

objections to the new deal

Question 40

(keynesianism) an economic theory based on the thoughts of british economist ..., hlding that central banks should ... and governments should use ... and ... to increase ... and hence prosperity

Answer 40

john maynard keynes; adjust interest rates; deficit spending; tax policies; purchasing power

Question 41

(eleanor rooselvlet ) prior to being first lady, she participated in the ... and the ...

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women's trade union league; league of women voters

Question 42

(eleanor rooselvlet ) most ... in history

Answer 42

active first lady

Question 43

(harry l. hopkins) hopkins, a friend and advisor for FDR, headed the ...

Answer 43

federal emergency relief administration

Question 44

(harry l. hopkins) hopkins' administration granted about ... to the states for direct ... or preferably for ...

Answer 44

$3 billion; dole payments; wages on work projects

Question 45

(Father Charles Coughlin) coughlin was a ... serving in michigan who discusse dplitics over the ..., expressing prejudiced and authoritarianistic views

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catholic priest; radio

Question 46

(Father Charles Coughlin) he was largely against the

Answer 46

new deal

Question 47

(Father Charles Coughlin) he was the reason that a treaty that would make america part of the ... was not passed

Answer 47

world court

Question 48

(francis e. townsend) townsend was a retired ... who pledged to

Answer 48

california physician; grant everyone money

Question 49

(Huey P ."Kingfish" Long) long served as teh ..., and later as a ... he was yet another agitator during the great depression, developing the ... in which ... would be given to eah family in the nation

Answer 49

governor of louisiana; u.s. senator; "share our wealth" prgogram; $5000

Question 50

(Huey P ."Kingfish" Long) long was considered one of the

Answer 50

two most dangerous men in the country

Question 51

(mary macleod bethune) bethune was the director of the ... in the ... she was the "... in the roosevelt adminsitration"

Answer 51

office of minority affairs; national youth administration; highest-ranking african american

Question 52

(mary macleod bethune) she created the "..." to ensure that the new deal programs would not e discriminatory

Answer 52

blak cabinet;

Question 53

(robert f. wagner) wagner was a ... who was a proponent of the ..., known as the wagner act

Answer 53

new york senator; national labor relations act of 1935