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New Deal Potpourri
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This was the most immediate cause
of the Great Depression.
Stock Market Crash
This president believed in rugged
individualism and hence provided no
direct relief to the poor.
Hoover
Although he had no specific plans
for fighting the Great Depression,
this man was elected President in
1932.
FDR
The New Deal attempted to deal
with this fundamental problem of the
farmers.
Overproduction
FDR attempted to “pack” this in
order to prevent his New Deal
reforms from being declared
unconstitutional.
Supreme Court
This act paid subsidies to farmers
and was declared unconstitutional.
AAA
This prevented people from losing
money they deposited in the bank; it
still exists today.
FDIC
This administration hired males and
females to construct buildings,
roads, etc. and probably funded this
school.
Works Progress Administration
This corps hired men to plant trees,
build parks, etc.
CCC
This commission was chiefly
designed to correct the abuses in the
stock market.
SEC
Immigration legislation of the 1920s
favored immigrants from these 2
regions of Europe.
Northern and Western
This feeling of distrust for foreigners
and an “America for Americans”
was on the rise in the 1920s.
nativism
This industry boomed in the 1930s
for it offered an escape from the
dismal reality of the times.
Radio/Film
This act was declared
unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court who deemed the federal
government could not stretch its
power over intrastate commerce in
Schecter Poultry Corp. v. the US
NRA (or part of the NIRA)
This army was denied its money by
Congress under the Hoover
administration.
Bonus
Langston Hughes and Countee
Cullen were members of this
movement.
The Harlem Renaissance
These were the raids that attempted
to find communists during the Red
Scare.
Palmer
This was the local product of the
CCC’s work
Chenango Valley State Park
This Steinbeck book discusses
the plight of a family of migrant
workers.
The Grapes of Wrath
This photographer captured the
plight of the “Migrant Mother.”
Dorothea Lange
At the site of this Binghamton
restaurant was a speakeasy
during Prohibition.