What was the Bonus
Army?
Why did the Bonus Army
march on Washington?
What event occurred on
Black Tuesday?
John Maynard Keynes
suggested that _______
caused the Great
Depression
What is Volunteerism?
How did Farmers
contribute to the
problems that led to
the Dust Bowl?
What economic policy
did Hoover follow
regarding
the Depression?
What contributed to
farmers problems during
the 1920’s?
Why did American’s
decide that the country
needed new leadership
in 1932?
What bill did Roosevelt
and Congress pass the
day after FDR’s
inauguration?
What was the purpose of
the Securities Exchange
Commission?
How did Eleanor
Roosevelt changed the
role of the First Lady?
This act was created to
help retirees?
What group did the Rural
Electrification
Administration aim to
provide electricity to?
The right of collective
bargaining was part of
the __________ act?
What was the main
complaint that
Conservatives had against
New Deal programs?
What were Hoovervilles?
Who wrote “The Grapes
of Wrath”?
Term used to describe
the devastation of the
Great Plains caused by
Drought.
The construction of the
Hoover Dam illustrates
what kind of partnership?
What day did the Stock
Market collapse?
Who was the
photographer that
captured the rural poor
during the 1930’s?
What does the Fair Labor
Standards Act establish?
Why did President
Roosevelt declare a
“bank holiday” on his
second day in office?
What were the three
main goals of the
New Deal?
Which part of the federal
government was able to
strike down several of the
New Deal programs.
How did the governments
relief policies change
during the
Second New Deal?
Senator Huey Long, Father
Charles Coughlin and
Dr. Francis Townsend
were alike in what way?
President Roosevelt loses
the support of his own
party in 1937 when he
does what?
Practice of making
high-risk investments in
hopes of obtaining large
profits.
Periodic growth and
contraction of the
economy.
Protective import tax
authorized by Congress in
1930 that only made the
economy worse.
Line of people waiting
for food handouts from
charities or public
agencies.
System in which the
farmer paid rent to a
landowner
for the use of the land.
General terms use to
describe Dust Bowl
refugees.
Process by which Mexican
Americans were encouraged,
or forced, by local, state, and
federal officials to return to
Mexico during the 1930s.
Policy relied on by President
Hoover in the early years of the
Depression whereby local and
state governments act as
primary agents of economic relief.
Federal agency set up by
Congress in 1932 to provide
emergency government
credit to banks, railroads,
and other large businesses.
Dam on the Colorado River
that was build during the Great
Depression that used both
private and public funds.
Group of WWI veterans who
marched on Washington, D.C.,
in 1932 to demand early payment
of a bonus promised them by
Congress.
Informal radio broadcast in
which FDR explained issues
and New Deal programs to
average Americans.
Programs and legislation enacted by
Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great
Depression to promote economic
recovery and social reform.
Established a pension system
and unemployment insurance;
provided payments to workers
injured on the job, the poor, and
people with disabilities.
Employed millions of people
on government projects
ranging from highway
construction
Provided loans to electric
companies to build power
lines bringing electricity to
isolated rural areas.
Outlawed unfair labor practices;
granted workers the right to
organize unions and to bargain
collectively; created the
national Labor
Relations Board.
Trained and provided jobs
and counseling for
unemployed youth
between the ages of 16-25.
Finalized the creation of the FDIC
and made insurance for bank
deposits permanent; created a
board to regulate the nation’s
money supply and interest rates on
loans.
Subsidized construction
of low-cost public housing
by providing federal loans.
Banned child labor,
established a minimum
hourly wage, and set the
work week at 44 hours.
Prohibited the mislabeling of
food, drugs, and cosmetics
and ensured the safety and
purity of these products.
Insured bank deposits
up to $5,000.
Commission established to
regulate the stock market and
make it a safer place for
investments.
Government agency that
built dams in the Tennessee
River to control flooding
and generate electric
power.
New Deal program that provided
young men with relief jobs on
environmental conservation
projects, including reforestation
and flood control.
New Deal agency that
promoted economic
recovery by regulating
production, prices, and wages.
New Deal agency that
provided millions of jobs
constructing public
buildings.
Labor organization
founded in the 1930s
that represented
unskilled industrial workers.
FDR plan to add up to six new
justices to the nine-member
Supreme Court after the Court
had ruled that some New Deal
legislation was unconstitutional.
New Deal law that abolished
unfair labor practices, recognized
the right of employees to
organize labor unions, and gave
workers the right to collective
bargaining.
Process in which employers
negotiate with labor unions
about hours, wages, and
other working conditions.
Government that assumes
responsibility for providing
for the welfare of the poor;
elderly, sick and unemployed.
Economic theory that favored
public works projects because
they put money into the hands
of consumers who would buy
more goods, stimulating the
economy.