Standard 6 - Great Depression/New Deal

Question 1

Moved inauguration of the President from March to January 20th. Shortened to the “lame Duck” session

Answer 1

20th Amendment

Question 2

Environmental crisis in the west in which top-soil is carried hundreds of miles, caused by drought, farming methods, disease, and insects

Answer 2

Dust Bowl

Question 3

FDR’s wife, became the eyes and ears for FDR. she led the movement for womens rights, supported the new deal and opposed the jim crow laws.

Answer 3

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 4

FDR’s programs for Relief, Reform, and Recovery

Answer 4

New Deal

Question 5

Buying goods on the installment plan. Buy now and pay later.

Answer 5

Credit

Question 6

Farmers from the dust bowl affected great plains that relocated in large numbers to southeren california to work farm jobs that were located there.

Answer 6

Okies

Question 7

Government spending money to create stimulus in the economy.

Answer 7

Keynesian Economics

Question 8

New deal program that employed thousands of men to build public words; hospitals,schools, airports, etc
Also employed were artists, writers, and musicians.

Answer 8

Works Progress Administration

Question 9

Gave power to the labor unions by goving workers the rights to organize or join labor unions and to bargain collectively with their employers.

Answer 9

National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)

Question 10

New Deal Program to (gov. money) pay farmers to decrease production in certain crops and increase prices. (was ruled unconstitutional)

Answer 10

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Question 11

Believed to have made labor unions stronger than the business owners themselves.

Answer 11

Wagner Act

Question 12

World War 1 veterans who were promised their pension, but they marched on Washington D.C to demand their bonus to be released to them early

Answer 12

Bonus Army

Question 13

Orders used to respond to emergencies or when congress would ot take up the issue. President Roosevelt used over 3000 of these

Answer 13

Executive Orders

Question 14

Photographer hired by the WPA to photograph Americans during the Great Depression. She liked to focus on the struggling migrant farmer, sharecroppers, etc.

Answer 14

Dorthea Lange

Question 15

Created for people too old to work, and the helpless, like childeren. It guaranteed payments for enrolled workers beginning at 65.

Answer 15

Social Security Act (SSA)

Question 16

Buying stock with a portion (margin) of the money, and borrowing the rest from the banks or brokers.

Answer 16

Buying on Margin

Question 17

When the Government spends more money than it takes in taxes. And is typically done to try to jumpstart the economy

Answer 17

Deficit Spending

Question 18

Buying products, land, or stock, that is cheap with the hopes of selling at a higher price.

Answer 18

Speculation

Question 19

President of the United States in 1933. His economic stimulus package was called the New Deal, government intervention created. The purpose was to put people back to work through federal programs. His fireside chats restored faith in the U.S. government.

Answer 19

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 20

Roosevelt believed this was the key to economic recovery but this too was also ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court (after this happened FDR attempted to “pack”the Supreme Court with justices that he thought would be favorable to his programs)

Answer 20

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Question 21

Established to encourage people to put their money back in the banks. It insured individual deposits up to 5,000.00. The goal was to restore american trust in the banking industry

Answer 21

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Question 22

October 29, 1929 the day of the stock market crash.

Answer 22

Black Tuesday

Question 23

New Deal program that created flood control, jobs, and brought electricity to 7 Southern states at a much cheaper price than private electric companies were doing at the time. Mississippi was one of the states that received electricity through the TVA.

Answer 23

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Question 24

Writer from the “Lost Generation” but became well known for his book “The Grapes of Wrath” about a family from Oklahoma and their struggles during the Great Depression.

Answer 24

John Steinbeck

Question 25

Weekly Presidential radio broadcast to inform the public about the New Deal programs and to encourage people to support the government’s attempts to relieve the economic depression

Answer 25

Fireside Chats

Question 26

unpopular president at the beginning of the great depression he did not believe in the government helping people called for rugged individualism called for Americans to pull themselves up by the bootstraps

Answer 26

Herbert Hoover

Question 27

Hoover’s last ditch effort to fix the economy. Goverment would subsidize loans to banks, then would loan the money out to business for wages and production, the businesses would then keep people employed and wages steady, then the people would spend and continue to pay their bills

Answer 27

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)w

Question 28

The idea that people can overcome anything with hard work and having pride in what you are doing (Hebert Hoover’s belief

Answer 28

Rugged Individualism

Question 29

1930, was the highest protective tariff. It deepened the Great Depression, at home and the world. Trade was basically non-existent

Answer 29

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 30

Jobs for unmarried men to plant trees, build buildings, and parks, and set up flood control. Had to give part of their paychecks back to their families. (later would hire women as well)

Answer 30

Civilian Conservation corps

Question 31

Wealth starts at the top and then trickles to the bottom

Answer 31

Trickle down Economics

Question 32

run down thrown together housing built by people who had been kicked out of their homes for non payment of rent or mortgages

Answer 32

Hooverville