Chapter 6 Test

Question 1

line of people waiting for food handout from charities or public agencies

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breadline

Question 2

makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression

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Hoovervilles

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farmer who pays rent to a landowner to use the land

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tenant farmers

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central and southern Great Plains during the 1930s, when the region suffered from drought and dust storms

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dust bowl

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Dust Bowl refugees

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okies

Question 6

process by which government officials return people to their country of origin

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repatriation

Question 7

The dust bowl occurred in…..

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Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado

Question 8

Many natives from these states, left their home and moved to

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California

Question 9

____ were hit the hardest during the depression

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Minorities

Question 10

African Americans could no longer sharecrop so they migrated….

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North

Question 11

In ___unemployment among AA was nearly double the national rate

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1932

Question 12

During this time many white Americans urged patriotism of

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Mexican Americans

Question 13

his involved the government efforts to send Mexican Immigrants and their ____children back to Mexico.

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American

Question 14

Hoover felt the gov should not interfere with what he thought was a natural____ of business cycle at first

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downswing

Question 15

asked state and gov to provide more jobs and relief measures

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localism

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government would provide loans for bankers and in turn they would lend money to businesses and those businesses would hire workers leading to an increasing production and consumption as well as the end of the depression gov to bank bank to business business to american

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trickle down economics

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At Hoover’s urging Congress created

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RFC Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Question 18

What did the RFC do?

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It was to provide loans to businesses however the businesses didn’t always use the money they were given to hire people they used it for personal benefit

Question 19

Nov 1932 FDR won presidency by

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7 million votes

Question 20

First 100 days of office FDR proposed 15 bills and congress passed them these 15 bills were known as the

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First New Deal

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First New Deal

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Relief Recovery and Reform

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TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

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Built dams in Tennessee River Valley to control floods and generate electric power

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Creation of Civilian Conservation Corps

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Provided jobs for 2,000,000 young men

CCC replanted forests, built trails, dug ditches and stopped fires

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NRA: National Recovery Administration

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Set min wage for workers, developed industry codes, min prices for goods

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PWA: Public Works Administration

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Created millions of new jobs building bridges, power plants, dams,and gov buildings

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FDIC Federal deposit insurance corporation

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Insured bank deposits

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SEC: Security Exchange Commision

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regulated stock market

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gave workers the right to collective bargaining

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wagner act

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in 1938 ___ est. min wage and Max number of hours for work week
Outlawed child labor

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Fair Labor Standard Act

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CIO (Congress of Industrial Organization)

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was est to organize workers in major industries
1936 they staged a sit down strike against general motors
They refused to leave until a settlement had been reached
Lead to other strikes which improved wages and working conditions for other union members

Question 31

First Female cabinet lady
Secretary of labor
Played key role in social security and min wage

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Francis Perkins

Question 32

President Roosevelt invited AA leaders to advise him and they became known as the

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Black cabinet

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Powerful champion of racial equality

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Mary Bethune

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Program to help American Indians with funding for construction of new schools and hospitals

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Indian New Deal

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Restored tribal control of American Indian Lands

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Indian Reorganization Act

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The gov assumed responsibility for proving for the welfare of children as well as the poor, elderly sick disabled and unemployed this lead to the rise of a

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welfare state

Question 37

in 1951 the ___ limited president terms to two consecutive terms
Lesson 6

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22 amendment

Question 38

Fed gov funded the arts for the first time through programs such as the

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Federal Arts Project

Question 39

Analyze the effects of the Great Depression on farmers.

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Crop prices fell even farther
New debts were added to old ones
Great Plains region had a drought.
Farming income was not enough to continue farming.
From 1930 to 1934 about 1,000,000 farmers failed to pay their mortgages and lost farms, however some stayed on the land as tenant farmers

Question 40

Analyze the impact of human and geographical factors that created the Dust Bowl.

Answer 40

The combination of the human geographic factor or loose topsoil caused by over farming and grazing and the physical geographic factors of drought and high winds resulted in the Dust Bowl
The tall grass could no longer be a protector for the topsoil against the layers of dust