The Great Depression And New Deal Flashcards
Why do male suicidal rates increase?
They were ashamed because they couldn’t support their families (pride)
Why do lines become a symbol for this time period?
Lines for food, bank, unemployment
Bank run
Storm a bank that is closing as an attempt to get their money back
Where are women in the Great Depression?
Invisible
Hoover ville or shanty town
Houses built of scrap material (found in today’s major cities)
Who was hurt the most?
The middle class
New deal
Programs to end depression started by franklin Roosevelt
GDP
Value of our products
Dorothea Lang
Famous photographer in the 1920-30s
What causes the Great Depression?
Market for American goods A crisis in the farm sector The availability of easy credit An unequal distribution of income The overuse of credit Stock market crash
Can the this happen to the stock market today?
No they have to close it down
Black Thursday and Tuesday
Stock falls and ppl panic oct. 24+29
Hoovervilles
Shanty towns
Hoboes
Men who wander across the us often on trains, looking for work, food, shelter
Hobo language
Signs written in chalk or scratched into buildings to warn other hoboes
Silent cal Coolidge
Believed in a small govt. (not many rules) took over the Harding presidency
Herbert hoovers campaign slogan
A chicken in every pot and a car in very garage
What was hoovers goal?
To end poverty
Hoover
Best presidential resimay and wealthiest president enters in the 1920s and stock market crashes 8 months after he enters as president
Hawley smoot tariff
Biggest tariff that shuts down foreign trade, harms economy, but intentions were to protect American businesses
How does Hoover deal with the crash?
He first encourages optimism or denial, then says charity will fix it and does nothing, finally he institutes the reconstruction finance corps in 1932, but its not a direct relief and loans money, too late to help
Ragged individualism
Get through the Great Depression by being tough (encouraged by Hoover)
Getting hooverd
To lose everything
Dust bowl
Dust storms and black blizzards in he bread basket of the world stretched from middle to eastern US ruining crops and farmland. Farmers left
Hundred days
1st hundred days in office for GDR promised change and acted quickly
New deal
Plan for fighting the GD using the government
Alphabet agencies
New government programs designed to create jobs and help people
The 3 R’s
Relief
Recovery
Reform
Relief
Direct assistance to people in need (short term)
Recovery
Getting American business back to normal
Reform
Changing laws to prevent another GD
1st new deal
Reform, short term, many things, helps with unemployment but doesn’t totally fix the economy
2nd new deal
Big things, upcoming election programs, response to slow change if the 1st new deal
Works progress administration
Relief, jobs for anyone to do anything (2nd)
Social security administration
Reform, pension for retired and injured workers (2nd)
Rural electrification administration
Electricity to rural America, very costly
Social security
Helping retired and injured workers by taking $ from pay and podded among all workers and given in monthly payments after retirement
Critics of the new deal
Huey long
Dr. Townsend
Fr coughlin
Fr coughlin
Critic of bankers and Jews
Dr. Townsend
Wants pension for elderly
Huey long
Share the wealth, has incredible political power, take from the rich and give to the poor
Movies
Stay warm, cheap
War of the worlds
Tv broadcast that Martians invaded earth, false, but caused a panic
Religion
Gave hope and faith
Radio
Entertainment and kept you informed
Art
Importance of work and GD (American gothic)
Music
Spirituals, political (radical song like this land is your land)
Liberal
Democrats, big govt, powerful national govt, regulate economy, communism (no private property), change, left wing
Long, fdr’s new deal, time goes on Supreme Court shifts over
Conservative
Republicans, small govt, powerful state govt, right wing, fascism (private property), no change
Hoover
Supreme Court at beginning
Who painted the new deal mural?
Albrizio
What does for represent?
The return of work
When was fdr elected?
1932,36,40,44
What party was fdr apart of?
Democratic (change)
When did fdr die?
1945
Who was fdr’s wife?
Eleanor Roosevelt
What major events did fdr do?
New deal Pres for only 2 terms Takes us through GD Takes us through ww2 Creates social security
What does time equal in the Hoover presidency?
Trouble and debt
Who does Hoover blame for the GD?
Foreign trade
Reconstruction finance corp
Hoover talks to banks to extend loans but causes more debt
Guthrie
Traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned traditional folk and blues songs (GD and dust bowl) dust bowl troubadour
Boulder dam
Hoover built to make jobs and use hydroelectric power
Share the wealth
Longs plan to make every man a king, tax rich, give home, car, food, clothing, employment, radio, comfort, education grade schooltil college, social security, no debt
What does fdr say in his speech?
Recasting out GD by saying there is hope to overcome, but we have to be honest we have a problem
Who does fdr blame?
Bankers
Civilian conservation corps
(Abc) relief, young men to do environmental jobs to support their families
Civil works admin.
Abc, relief, small, gave pointless jobs to give ppl money (terrible winter need $ for heat)
Public works admin.
Recovery and relief, abc, financed construction products both fed. and non fed, built big things
Glass steagall banking act of 1933
Abc, reform, creates FDIC or bank deposit insurance
Fed. Securities act
Reform, abc, sec or security exchange commission, regulate the stock market
Agricultural adjustment act
Relief, abc,unconstitutional cause of too much boot. Control, helped farmers by regulating production, no more wasting product
National recovery act
Abc, recovery, unconstitutional for too much govt. control, way for American businesses to not compete with each other, instead develop
