Unit 17/18/19

Question 1

Deflation

Answer 1

A decrease in the general price of goods and services

Question 2

Price Support

Answer 2

Law that keeps prices above a set level

Question 3

Credit

Answer 3

Short Term loans to buy goods with promises to pay later

Question 4

Alfred E. Smith

Answer 4

Democractic presdiental candidate in 1928

Question 5

Dow Jones Indutrial Average

Answer 5

Index of stock prices of select companies

Question 6

Speculation

Answer 6

Investments in high risk ventures

Question 7

Buying on margin

Answer 7

Buying stock by paying only a portion of the full cost up-front with promise to pay the rest later

Question 8

Black Tuesday

Answer 8

October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed

Question 9

Great Depression

Answer 9

Period of bad economic times in the U.S. that lasted from 1929 - 1930s

Question 10

Hawley Smoot Tariff Act

Answer 10

Law that raised taxes on imports and worsend the Depression

Question 11

Herbert Hoover

Answer 11

31st President

Question 12

Boulder Dam

Answer 12

Dam on the Colordao River built during the Depression to create jobs

Question 13

Federal Home Loan Bank Act

Answer 13

Law passed in 1931 to reduce mortage rates to save farmers from foreclosure

Question 14

Reconstruction Finace Corporation

Answer 14

Agency established in 1932 to provide emergy relief to large buisnesses, inusrance companies, and banks

Question 15

Bonus Army

Answer 15

Unemployed WWI veterans who marched to Washington to demand their war bonuses

Question 16

Franklin Delani Roosevelt

Answer 16

32nd PResident

Question 17

New Deal

Answer 17

Franklin Roosevelts progams to end the Depression

Question 18

Glass Steagall Act

Answer 18

Law that created insurance for bank deposits

Question 19

Federak Securities Act

Answer 19

Law to regulate stock information

Question 20

Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)

Answer 20

Programs to help farmers

Question 21

Civiliian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Answer 21

Program to empploy young men in owrk projects

Question 22

National Inudtrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

Answer 22

Programs to help indutry

Question 23

Deficit Spending

Answer 23

Spending more than the goverment recieves in revenue

Question 24

Huey Long

Answer 24

Politcal leader from Louisanana who critized the New Deal

Question 25

Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 25

First lady
social reformer
political advisor

Question 26

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Answer 26

New Deal jobs program

Question 27

National youth Administration (NYA)

Answer 27

Program to provide aid and jobs to young people

Question 28

Social Security Act

Answer 28

Program that provided aid to people with disabilities and pensions for retired workers

Question 29

Securties and exchange Commission (SEC)

Answer 29

Agency to regulate stock markets

Question 30

Federal Deposit Insurance Coporation (FDIC)

Answer 30

Insurance for savings

Question 31

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Answer 31

Agency to regualte buisness

Question 32

Parity

Answer 32

An equal or fair amount

Question 33

Tennessee Vallet authority (TVA)

Answer 33

Regional work project of lasting value