Ufier's Terms (The Great Depression & New Deal)

Question 1

Dust Bowl

Answer 1

An economic condition created by a perfect storm of over-farming, depleting the soil of nutrients and a severe drought. The conditions created large migrations to other parts of the nation, particularly California, for promising work opportunities.

Question 2

21st Amendment

Answer 2

This amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and ended Prohibition.

Question 3

Wagner Act

Answer 3

This act guaranteed workers the right to collective bargain with employers concerning unions, outlawed company unions, prohibited employers from firing workers after a strike, and established the National Labor Relations Board to enforce these provisions.

Question 4

Social Security Act

Answer 4

Began in 1935 as a way for states to establish their own workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, and aid for dependent families, as well as elderly pensions.

Question 5

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Answer 5

(NRA) A program developed businesses by regulating wages which would generate more purchasing power for individuals.

Question 6

Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 6

She modernized the role of the First Lady by serving as Roosevelt’s political representative for the New Deal as she met with hundreds of organizations.

Question 7

Huey Long

Answer 7

A Louisiana senator who did not support the New Deal programs. His Share-the-Wealth program proposed to confiscate large amounts of money from the rich and redistribute them to the rest of the country. He gained a lot of support, but was assassinated in 1935.

Question 8

Second New Deal

Answer 8

Started in 1935 as a response to demands for more dramatic action to be taken to resolve the Great Depression more quickly.

Question 9

The New Deal

Answer 9

Roosevelt’s campaign platform that focused on the “three Rs:” Recovery of the economy, Relief for individuals and business affected by the depression, and Reform of the current financial situation to prevent future economic crises. Included the Hundred Days were dozens of relief programs began.

Question 10

Alphabet Soup

Answer 10

The nickname for the many relief programs enacted to help relieve the Great Depression

Question 11

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Answer 11

(CCC) employed young men to build roads and trails in the national parks.

Question 12

Public Works Administration (PWA)

Answer 12

(PWA) Created funding for highways, bridges, tunnels, flood control, and other national infrastructure.

Question 13

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Answer 13

A program designed to modernize the region through education, modernize farming techniques, and provide electricity

Question 14

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Answer 14

Helped raise commodity prices by paying farmers to cut agricultural production.

Question 15

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Answer 15

employed workers to for public works projects including building projects and arts.

Question 16

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Answer 16

Created under the Hoover Administration, this organization provided emergency loans to banks, life-insurance companies, building and loan societies, farm mortgage associations, and railroads.

Question 17

Bonus Expeditionary Force

Answer 17

A group of over 20,000WWI veterans who went to Washington D.C. in the spring of 1923 to quickly receive a cash bonus that congress had approved in 1924 to be payable in 1945. Early release of these funds were vetoed by congress.

Question 18

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 18

After earning his law degree, Roosevelt became a New York State Senator, then Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson’s two presidential terms. He ran for President and won in 1932. He is the only President to serve four terms.