Module 1 review Flashcards
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Push and pull factors
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Reasons or forces that cause people to move to another place or move from another place.
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Famine
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Sever food shortage that lead to starvation
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Migration
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The movement of people from one part of the country to another
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Dust bowl
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A region including parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico in which farms were damaged by dust storms and drought during the 1930’s.
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Personal Investing
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Choosing to spend personal money to purchase parts of a company in hopes to receive an increased return of the money spent.
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TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
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A federally funded project created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to build hydroelectric dams and reservoirs to create jobs to control flooding and provide irrigation for farmland.
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WPA (Works Progress Administration)
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A federally funded organization to create projects and jobs for people who were unemployed.
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CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
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A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. Originally for young men ages 18-23, it was eventually expanded to young men ages 17-28.
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New Deal
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A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933-37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The New Deal was created in response to the Great Depression.
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Great Depression
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A serious world wide economic slump which caused companies to lose money and lay off workers, triggering a loss of wealth for the entire country.
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Herbert Hoover
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A Republican president of the United States in the late 1920’s that failed to actively stop or slow down the Great Depression.
Known as the “Do nothing President”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A Democratic president of the United States during the Great Depression who was widely given credit for his policies that ended the Great Depression.
Creator of “new deal”
Impact of the Great Depression
What was the biggest impact of the Great Depression?
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Millions of people were left unemployed
Causes of Great depression
What were the three main causes for the Great Depression?
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- Farm depression of the 1920’s
- Unequal disstribution of wealth
- Stock market crash of 1920
Unemployment
How many american were left unemployed?
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About 30 million Americans lost their source of income
Anyone still working was likely to be push onto a part time schedule
