Section 2 Flashcards
Who face the greatest difficulties?
Racial minorities
What is to motto of this section?
“Last hired, first fired”
Who’s unemployment rate doubled those of whites?
Blacks
What did minorities also receive?
Less aid
What did Hispanic Americans face?
Increasing competition for smaller number and poorer paying jobs
What did Hoover do more than any other president ?
He fought the depression
What did he rely heavily on?
Voluntary private relief over government action
What did he encourage?
He encouraged business organizations but was unable to secure corporate cooperation.
What efforts fell far short?
Voluntary relief effort
What did Hoover veto
He vetoed a congressional plan to aid the unemployed
What was cut and what cooperation did it establish?
Pushed through a tax cut and established the reconstruction finance cooperation
Who was the republican in the election of 1932
Hoover
Who was the democrat in the election of 1892
Franklin d. Roosevelt
Who won a landslide election
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What did FDR pass in the first 100 days
Passed large body of legislation
