The Great Depression Flashcards
What were two causes of the crash of the New York Stock Market Exchange?
Over productivity
Over speculation
What program tried to create more meaningful jobs and they even employed actor and musicians to put on plays and concerts in the park?
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
What are the 3 general aims of the New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
What is the only major issue of the 1932 Presidential election?
The Great Depression
What were the two nicknames of the decade of the 1920’s?
Roaring 20’s and the Jazz age
Who was the President of the United States when the Great Depression struck?
Herbert Hoover
What did FDR refer to the farmers and unemployed factory workers as?
The Forgotten Americans
What corporation insured bank deposits up to $2500 in 1933?
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
What was the type of women in the 1920’s wore shorter skirts, short hair and showed an independent and adventurous life style?
Flapper
What provision that legalized collective bargaining for industrial workers?
Section 7A
What we the two days that the stock market crashed?
Black Tuesday and Black Thursday
What type of programs was where the government gave people food, clothing and shelter - because they were in dire need?
Direct relief
What was the period of time where music, poetry and theater led to an expression of growing pride among African Americans?
Harlem Renaissance
Who said the following: “the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself’” and promised, “action and action, now’”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is another name for the shantytowns that popped up on the outskirts of the many cities hit hard during the depression?
Hooverville
