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The Great Depression And New Deal Flashcards

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Why do male suicidal rates increase?

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They were ashamed because they couldn’t support their families (pride)

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Why do lines become a symbol for this time period?

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Lines for food, bank, unemployment

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Bank run

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Storm a bank that is closing as an attempt to get their money back

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Where are women in the Great Depression?

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Invisible

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Hoover ville or shanty town

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Houses built of scrap material (found in today’s major cities)

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Who was hurt the most?

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The middle class

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New deal

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Programs to end depression started by franklin Roosevelt

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GDP

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Value of our products

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9
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Dorothea Lang

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Famous photographer in the 1920-30s

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What causes the Great Depression?

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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
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Can the this happen to the stock market today?

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No they have to close it down

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Black Thursday and Tuesday

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Stock falls and ppl panic oct. 24+29

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Hoovervilles

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Shanty towns

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Hoboes

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Men who wander across the us often on trains, looking for work, food, shelter

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Hobo language

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Signs written in chalk or scratched into buildings to warn other hoboes

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Silent cal Coolidge

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Believed in a small govt. (not many rules) took over the Harding presidency

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Herbert hoovers campaign slogan

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A chicken in every pot and a car in very garage

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18
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What was hoovers goal?

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To end poverty

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Hoover

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Best presidential resimay and wealthiest president enters in the 1920s and stock market crashes 8 months after he enters as president

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Hawley smoot tariff

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Biggest tariff that shuts down foreign trade, harms economy, but intentions were to protect American businesses

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21
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How does Hoover deal with the crash?

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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

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22
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Ragged individualism

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Get through the Great Depression by being tough (encouraged by Hoover)

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23
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Getting hooverd

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To lose everything

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Dust bowl

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Dust storms and black blizzards in he bread basket of the world stretched from middle to eastern US ruining crops and farmland. Farmers left

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Hundred days

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1st hundred days in office for GDR promised change and acted quickly

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New deal

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Plan for fighting the GD using the government

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27
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Alphabet agencies

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New government programs designed to create jobs and help people

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28
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The 3 R’s

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Relief
Recovery
Reform

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Relief

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Direct assistance to people in need (short term)

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Recovery

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Getting American business back to normal

31
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Reform

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Changing laws to prevent another GD

32
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1st new deal

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Reform, short term, many things, helps with unemployment but doesn’t totally fix the economy

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2nd new deal

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Big things, upcoming election programs, response to slow change if the 1st new deal

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Works progress administration

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Relief, jobs for anyone to do anything (2nd)

35
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Social security administration

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Reform, pension for retired and injured workers (2nd)

36
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Rural electrification administration

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Electricity to rural America, very costly

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Social security

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Helping retired and injured workers by taking $ from pay and podded among all workers and given in monthly payments after retirement

38
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Critics of the new deal

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Huey long
Dr. Townsend
Fr coughlin

39
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Fr coughlin

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Critic of bankers and Jews

40
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Dr. Townsend

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Wants pension for elderly

41
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Huey long

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Share the wealth, has incredible political power, take from the rich and give to the poor

42
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Movies

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Stay warm, cheap

43
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War of the worlds

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Tv broadcast that Martians invaded earth, false, but caused a panic

44
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Religion

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Gave hope and faith

45
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Radio

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Entertainment and kept you informed

46
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Art

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Importance of work and GD (American gothic)

47
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Music

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Spirituals, political (radical song like this land is your land)

48
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Liberal

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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

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Conservative

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Republicans, small govt, powerful state govt, right wing, fascism (private property), no change

Hoover
Supreme Court at beginning

50
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Who painted the new deal mural?

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Albrizio

51
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What does for represent?

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The return of work

52
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When was fdr elected?

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1932,36,40,44

53
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What party was fdr apart of?

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Democratic (change)

54
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When did fdr die?

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1945

55
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Who was fdr’s wife?

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Eleanor Roosevelt

56
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What major events did fdr do?

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New deal
Pres for only 2 terms
Takes us through GD
Takes us through ww2 
Creates social security
57
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What does time equal in the Hoover presidency?

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Trouble and debt

58
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Who does Hoover blame for the GD?

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Foreign trade

59
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Reconstruction finance corp

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Hoover talks to banks to extend loans but causes more debt

60
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Guthrie

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Traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned traditional folk and blues songs (GD and dust bowl) dust bowl troubadour

61
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Boulder dam

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Hoover built to make jobs and use hydroelectric power

62
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Share the wealth

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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

63
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What does fdr say in his speech?

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Recasting out GD by saying there is hope to overcome, but we have to be honest we have a problem

64
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Who does fdr blame?

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Bankers

65
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Civilian conservation corps

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(Abc) relief, young men to do environmental jobs to support their families

66
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Civil works admin.

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Abc, relief, small, gave pointless jobs to give ppl money (terrible winter need $ for heat)

67
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Public works admin.

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Recovery and relief, abc, financed construction products both fed. and non fed, built big things

68
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Glass steagall banking act of 1933

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Abc, reform, creates FDIC or bank deposit insurance

69
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Fed. Securities act

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Reform, abc, sec or security exchange commission, regulate the stock market

70
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Agricultural adjustment act

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Relief, abc,unconstitutional cause of too much boot. Control, helped farmers by regulating production, no more wasting product

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National recovery act

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Abc, recovery, unconstitutional for too much govt. control, way for American businesses to not compete with each other, instead develop

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