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Great Depression Unit Test Flashcards

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Great Depression

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A period of economic hard times following the crash from 1929 to 1941

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Causes of the Great Depression

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Over production and buying stocks on credit and over use in credit

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Economic cycle

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Changes of the economy between periods of growth and recession

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Hooverville

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Shacks the homeless lived in

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Herbert Hoover

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31st president

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FDR

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President of the United States from 1933 to 1945

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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American politician diplomat and activist. Longest serving First Lady of the United States

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Dr. Townsend

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American physician who devised the Townsend plan a popular proposal for state funded old age pensions

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Bonus army

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WW1 veterans who protested outside the White House to demand the money they were suppose to receive in 1945

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Bank holiday

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When FDR closed all the banks for 4 days and passed the banking relief act

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First hundred days

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FDRs first 100 days as a president

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New deal

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Series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938

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Dust bowl

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High winds in the Midwest and Great Plains that carried soil away in blinding dust storms

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Fireside chat

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FDRs 30 radio speeches given while in office

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CCC ( civilian conservation corps)

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Hired unemployed men to plan trees and build bridges and build new parks

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TVA ( Tennessee valley authority)

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Created a system of dams in Tennessee to control flooding and protect farmland

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SSA ( social security act)

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Created pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance and welfare aid

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FDIC ( federal deposit insurance corporation)

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An independent agency of the federal government responsible for insuring deposits made by individuals and companies in banks and other thrift institutions

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New deal critics

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Father Charles coughlins fiery radio broadcast reached an estimated 40 million listeners and attempted to sway people’s opinions away FDRS new deal

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Goals of the new deal

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Relief, recovery, reform

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Black Tuesday

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October 29 1929

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