The Great Depression

Question 1

Famous black poet who wrote about the sufferings of blacks in America.

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Langston Hughes

Question 2

Provides for unemployment insurance, retirement benefits, disability benefits

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Social Security Administration

Question 3

Slum areas that sprung up all over American during the Depression.

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Hoovervillles

Question 4

Gave emergency loans to banks and businesses to stop bankruptcy. A little too late to help.

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Question 5

What type of attitude did President Herbert Hoover have towards big business?

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laissez faire

Question 6

Limited production of crops and livestock to prevent surpluses and protect farmers.

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

Question 7

People would tune into these talks by FDR during the week to hear how nation's economy was

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Fireside Chats

Question 8

What did poor land management, no rain and lack of crop rotation cause in the midwest USA?

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Dust Bowl conditions of the Great Plains Region

Question 9

What did the SEC and FDIC create?

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Protection from fraud and bank failures

Question 10

WWI vets and their families who marched for the money promised to them after WWI.

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Bonus Expeditionary Force

Question 11

Provided unemployed jobs if they worked on building public utilities, buildings, etc.

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Public Works Administration

Question 12

This term was used by FDR when talking about stimulating programs to help during the depression

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Prime the Pump

Question 13

New Deal Agency set up to employ men to build infrastructure in USA.

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Works Progress Administration

Question 14

What did the Bonus Army want?

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Early payment of money promised to veterans of WWI

Question 15

How did the passage of the Social Security Act help Americans?

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Provides financial assistance after retirement

Question 16

Act that gave workers the right to unionize.

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National Labor Relations Act: Labor-Wagner Act

Question 17

What did they called the day the Stock Market Crashed?

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Black Tuesday

Question 18

Major cause of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

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excessive buying stocks on the margin

Question 19

Encouraged businesses to establish codes of fair practices.

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National Recovery Administration

Question 20

WWI Vets who demanded a bonus from Congress.

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War Bonus Army

Question 21

Built dams to control flooding in one of the poorest areas in the South. Provided need electric

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Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 22

How did New Deal policies change political thinking?

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Fed'l gov't should attempt to solve social/economic problems

Question 23

Famous Am. photographer who took pictures of migrant/sharecropper's lives during the depression

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Dorothea Lange

Question 24

What did installment buying cause that contributed to the Great Depression.

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economic weakness

Question 25

Provided work for young men ages 14-21; built roads, libraries, parks; sent 1/2 money to family

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Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 26

What did a closing banks during a holiday and the FDIC help to accomplish?

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Restore public confidence in banks

Question 27

When President FD Roosevelt tried to appoint USSC justices so they would ok his New Deals.

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Court packing scheme

Question 28

Gave jobs to artists, musicians, poets, writers to entertain and record history of the nation

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Works Progress Administration

Question 29

Wrote, "The Grapes of Wrath" depicting harsh life of "oakies" who went west due 2 the dust bowl

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John Steinbeck

Question 30

Tariff passed to protect American markets from foreign markets but hurt American businesses, 2

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff

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