Vocab& People

Question 0

Great Depression causes

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Stock market crash

Question 1

1928 election

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Herbert Hoover was elected

Question 2

Great Depression effects

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Unemployment & economy failed

Question 3

Herbert Hoover

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Elected president in 1928

Blamed for economic trouble & Great Depression

Question 4

Reconstruction finance corporation

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Gave billions of dollars to railroads and large businesses

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Bonus army

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Veterans wanting early payments but get rejected

Rioted in the capital

Question 6

Fireside chat

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Informational radio speech

Question 7

(TVA) Tennessee valley authority

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Built a series of dams in the Tennessee river valley to control floods

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Speculation

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Investors bought stocks w money they didn’t have

Question 9

Black Tuesday

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When panicked sellers traded 16 million shares on the New York stock exchange (4x the normal time)

Question 10

Hawley smooth tariff

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Raised prices on foreign imports to such a level that they could not compete in the American market
•inspired European countries to retaliate and enact protective tariffs on their own

Question 11

Bread line

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Where people lined up for handouts from charities or public agencies

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Hoovervilles

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Shanty towns of tents and shacks built ok public land it vacant lots

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Tenant farmers

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Worked for bigger land owners rather than themselves

Question 14

Dust bowl

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Took place in southern great planes such as Texas Oklahoma Kansas and New Mexico

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Okies

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Dust bowl refugees

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Reparation

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Involved efforts by local, state, and federal governments to encourage Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico

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Localism

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Policy whereby problems could best be solved at local and state levels
• Hoover had faith in it

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Trickle down economics

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Something Hoover believed in where if the government lent money to bankers they would lend it in turn to business men and they would hire workers and depression would end

Question 19

Douglas MacArthur

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General hired by Hoover to surround the affected area and clear it without self during he bonus army

Question 20

Franklin d Roosevelt (FDR)

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Elected pres in 1932
Got polio
New deal
Believed fed gov should play active role on recovery

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Federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC)

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Insured bank deposits up to $5,000

Question 22

Civilian conservation corps (CCC)

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Provided jobs for more than 2million young men

Replanted forests, built trails, drug irrigation ditches, and fought fires

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Federal emergency relief act (FERA)

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Granted federal funds to state and local agencies to help unemployed

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Civil works administration (CWA)

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Provided jobs on public work projects

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National recovery act (NRA)

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Codes of fair competition established minimum wages for workers and minimum prices for the goods that businesses sold

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Public works administration (PWA)

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Built bridges, power plants, dams, and gov buildings

Question 27

Charles coughlin

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Accused FDR of not doing enough to fight depression

Question 28

Huey long

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Solution to depression was "share our wealth" program that proposed high taxes on the wealthy and large corporations & income goes to poor

Question 29

Second new deal

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Addressed problems of elderly, poor & unemployed | Helped farmers and protected workers rights

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Works progress administration (WPA)

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Built or improved a good part of the nations highways, dredged rivers and harbors

Question 31

Social security act

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Established unemployment insurance for workers who lost their jobs

Question 32

Wagner act

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Outlawed unfair labor practices

Question 33

Who did a sit down strike

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United automobile workers union staged a sit down strike by CIO

Question 34

Congress of industrial organizations (CIO)

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Lower paid and ethnically diverse than workers in Afl (american federation of labor)

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American federation of labor (AFL)

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Represented skilled workers

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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African American member of black cabinet | FDR's advisor on minority affairs

Question 37

Dorothea Lange

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Photographers who created powerful images of impoverished farmers and migrant workers

Question 38

John Steinbeck

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Wrote grapes of wrath

Question 39

John Maynard Keynes

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One of the most influential economists during depression | Argued gov's lack of interference w economy led to depression

Question 40

Francis Perkins

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First female cabinet member

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Woody Guthrie

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Song writer

Question 42

Gross national product(GNP)

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Indicator of nations economic activity

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Blue eagle

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Symbol for support of national industrial recovery act

Question 44

American liberty league

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Opposed new deal

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Civilian conservation corps

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For unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of new deal