Unit 2:: The Great Depression

Question 1

What was the panic of 1929?

Answer 1

October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed. Lead to the Panic of 1929

Question 2

What is “Buying On Margin”?

Answer 2

the purchasing stock with a little money down with the promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future.

Question 3

What is the stock market crash?

Answer 3

October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed. Lead to the Panic of 1929

Question 4

who is Herbert Hoover?

Answer 4

was the president of the u.s from 1923-1933 leader of the us in the beginning of the great depression. he didn’t want the gov involved in the peoples lives and thought that the people should express their individual rights.

Question 5

What are “Hoovervilles”?

Answer 5

shanty towns that the unemployed built in the cities during the early years of the depression; the name given to them shows that the people blamed hoover directly for the depression.

Question 6

what was the Bonus March?

Answer 6

Group of WWI vets. that marched to D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their goverment war bonuses in cash

Question 7

what was the election of 1932?

Answer 7

Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Pres. Herbert Hoover.

Question 8

What is Hawley-Smoot tariff act?

Answer 8

A tax on imported goods, raised U.S. tariffs to historically high levels.

Question 9

Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

Answer 9

a democrat who became united states president in 1933; his program to alleviate the problems of the great depression became known as the “new deal” and he remained president through WWII.

Question 10

What is The New Deal?

Answer 10

series of new laws and programs introduced by president Roosevelt during depression to create jobs and improve the economy. things like P.W.A. and W.P.A.

Question 11

What is “Brain Trust”?

Answer 11

advisers of Franklin Roosevelt who were mostly college professors

Question 12

Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?

Answer 12

worked had trying to create racial equality for African Americans; was the “eyes and ears” of the president

Question 13

What is the Dust Bowl?

Answer 13

the geographic area, including the Texas panhandle, hardest hit by the drought during the 1930s where the soil was so dry it blew away in great clouds of dust.

Question 14

What was “Riding the Rails”?

Answer 14

People that were forced off their farms would migrate by jumping on trains.

Question 15

What are “okies”?

Answer 15

Displaced farm families from the Oklahoma dust bowl who migrated to California during the 1930s in search of jobs.

Question 16

What was “Programs of the New Deal and reaction to the new deal?

Answer 16

laws that were passed

Question 17

What are Fireside chats?

Answer 17

the informal radio conversations Roosevelt had with the people to keep spirits up. it was a means of communicating with the people on how he would take on the depression.

Question 18

What is the Bank Holiday?

Answer 18

order by Franklin Roosevelt closing all banks for several days in 1933 while a program to protect the savings of the public was developed

Question 19

What is the first hundred days?

Answer 19

This term refers to March 4 to June 16, 1933. During this period of dramatic legislative productivity, FDR laid out the programs that constituted the New Deal. Today, presidents are often measured by their actions in the same period of time

Question 20

What is alphabet soup?

Answer 20

A collection of ideas put forth by FDR in his New Deal. The ideas were known by their initials, such as AAA and NRA.