the great depression

Question 1

old newspaper/cardboard used for warmth

Answer 1

hoover blankets

Question 2

empty pockets flipped inside out

Answer 2

hooverflags

Question 3

houses made out of newspaper for the homeless

Answer 3

hoovervilles

Question 4

the belief that all individuals can succeed on their own with min gov’t help

Answer 4

rugged individualism

Question 5

the spendings of gov funds in commercial enterprises, to stimulate the economy in the 1930’s

Answer 5

“pump priming”

Question 6

WW1 veterans go to Washington DC and build Hoovervilles demanding their awards a year earlier and the gov’t responds with violence. american soldiers vs american soldiers.

Answer 6

bonus army.

Question 7

“a politicians politician”
served 4 terms
democrat

Answer 7

FDR

Question 8

1st lady
US ambassador to united nation
wins Nobel peace prize
civil rights advocate
"Roosevelts legs"

Answer 8

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 9

professors, economists, lawyers, etc. help president end Great Depression

Answer 9

Brain Trust

Question 10

set of program to end Great Depression

1. Relief (target unemployment)
2. Recovery (target banks & businesses)
3. Reform (prevent another Great Depression)

Answer 10

new deal

Question 11

term used by FDR to label everyone affected by the Great Depression

Answer 11

the “forgotten man”

Question 12

FDR’s first 100 days in congress and congress does everything FDR wants

Answer 12

hundred days congress

Question 13

FDR talks through radio shows

“the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”

Answer 13

“fireside chats”

Question 14

reason black people go to democratic side

head national youth administration

Answer 14

Mary Mclead Bethune

Question 15

Supreme Court says new deal is unconstitutional

Answer 15

Schechter decision

Question 16

president in office in January rather than March

Answer 16

20th amendment

Question 17

Liq is legal again

Answer 17

21st amendment

Question 18

government pays farmers not to farm.

price for agricultural goes up cause price of production goes down.

Answer 18

“subsidized scarcity”

Question 19

a drought. impacted 10 states.

Answer 19

dust bowl

Question 20

FDR’s response to schechter decision. works on making Supreme Court bigger.

Answer 20

Court-packing

Question 21

says that for a nation to recover fully from a depression the gov has to spend $ for investment & consumption

Answer 21

John Maynard Keyne

Question 22

makes political system less corrupt

makes using employees for political campaigns illegal

Answer 22

hatch act

Question 23

October 29, 1929

-stock markets went down-

Answer 23

“Black Tuesday”