Chapter 6 Test Flashcards
(40 cards)
line of people waiting for food handout from charities or public agencies
breadline
makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression
Hoovervilles
farmer who pays rent to a landowner to use the land
tenant farmers
central and southern Great Plains during the 1930s, when the region suffered from drought and dust storms
dust bowl
Dust Bowl refugees
okies
process by which government officials return people to their country of origin
repatriation
The dust bowl occurred in…..
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado
Many natives from these states, left their home and moved to
California
____ were hit the hardest during the depression
Minorities
African Americans could no longer sharecrop so they migrated….
North
In ___unemployment among AA was nearly double the national rate
1932
During this time many white Americans urged patriotism of
Mexican Americans
his involved the government efforts to send Mexican Immigrants and their ____children back to Mexico.
American
Hoover felt the gov should not interfere with what he thought was a natural____ of business cycle at first
downswing
asked state and gov to provide more jobs and relief measures
localism
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
trickle down economics
At Hoover’s urging Congress created
RFC Reconstruction Finance Corporation
What did the RFC do?
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
Nov 1932 FDR won presidency by
7 million votes
First 100 days of office FDR proposed 15 bills and congress passed them these 15 bills were known as the
First New Deal
First New Deal
Relief Recovery and Reform
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
Built dams in Tennessee River Valley to control floods and generate electric power
Creation of Civilian Conservation Corps
Provided jobs for 2,000,000 young men
CCC replanted forests, built trails, dug ditches and stopped fires
NRA: National Recovery Administration
Set min wage for workers, developed industry codes, min prices for goods