FDR And Great Depression Flashcards
(15 cards)
What does Roosevelt think Americans should the fear?
To fear Fear itself
What does first inaugural speech mean?
The first speech after a president is elected
What was the CCC
A relief program to help young unmarried unemployed men between the ages of 18 and 24 to provide jobs and stop crime
What was the AAA
A recovery program to raise farm prices and used taxes to pay farmers and it disappeared because of controversy
What was the FDIC
A reform program to help people who have money in failed banks at most $250,000 it insured depression wouldn’t happen and restored confidence
What was that NIRA
A recovery program because it increased employment, raise prices after deflation, and restored prices to a profitable level it does not exist today
What is the TVA
The Tennessee Valley signed in 1933 to help with flooding and electricity still around today and one of the biggest electricity companies in the world
How did the Great Depression affect kids
One fourth were homeless, no clothes or shoes for warmth, left school and couldn’t work
How did Eleanor Roosevelt start out
She was nonpolitical and very self-conscious because her mom was always disappointed in her
What helped her gain confidence?
Her boarding school teacher
How did she help out FDR and the country
When FDR got polio she was like his legs, she dealt with all the political problems and helped start many of the reform recovery or relief programs
How did she get closer to the people
She wrote in her daily column
What happened between FDR and her secretary
They had a personal fair which weakened the relationship between Eleanor and Roosevelt
What were some examples of the kids that wrote letters to her wanting stuff
Psalm wanted their dad to have a job, to go to college, to have an Easter dress, to have a radio, or to have a bike
What was Tennessee Valley like before FDR rescued it
Really bad shape with no electricity, Bad soil, jobless people, unhealthy people, and flooding
