Final Exam - - Great depression Flashcards
What act was called for industries to cooperate rather than compete and encourage them to develop a “code of fair practices” within their industry?
NIRA - - National Industry Recovery Act
What organization was hit with a panic of selling stock at the beginning of the Great Depression?
New York Stock Exchange
What was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economic plan for combating the Great Depression?
The New Deal
What is the name of the Corporation that insured bank deposits up to $2,500 in 1933?
FDIC - - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
What is the name of the organization that employed young people to do conservation work and had them send a portion of their wage home to their parents?
CCC - - Civilian conservation Corporation
What brought an end to the New Deal?
World War II
What President ran and won the presidential election 4 times?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What organization provided unemployment insurance - - which were an old age pension and benefits to the handicapped?
Social Security Act
What was the name of the greatest American experiment - - where a number of dams were built on the Cumberland and Tennessee River - - and was designed to improve the quality of life in the region?
TVA - - Tennessee Valley Authority
Who was the President at the start of the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
