Depression/ New Deal

How did critic Francis Townsend want to approach solving the Depression?

Name given to a series of programs and laws that were created to end the Great Depression

The__ built 21 government-owned dams controlling floods and producing electricity

Who was Father Coughlin?

Supreme Court Case that overturned the National Industrial Recovery Administration

Law that paid farmers to grow less produce or livestock in oder to raise prices

Method used by F.D.R. to communicate with Americans during the Depression

Was Herbert Hoover the president of the US in the beginning of the Great Depression?

To prevent fraud and build confidence in the stock market

Created an old-age pention and unemployment insurance

The use of paper money that could no longer be traded or exchanged for gold

Second President of the Great Depression, know for the New Deal Programs

Federal law that limits how long a President can serve in office, 2 terms of 4 yrs each

Areas where homeless people lived on public lands during the Great Depression

Writer who describe the problems of Okies during the Dust Bowl

Which policy did Huey Long support in opposition to the New Deal?

New Deal admin. that brought industry, labor, and govt together to create code codes of "fair practices" and set price

Person who documented the Dust Bowl and Great Depression through photography

System of banks that control the amount of money and credit available

Law that repatriated Mexican immigrants in order to reduce competition for American jobs during the Depression

Wrote the book, "It's Up To The Women" to explain how women were helping during the Depression

What did President Roosevelt call group of advisers that helped him before he was inaugurated?

Attempt by FDR to change the balance of the Supreme Court by adding judges

What is inflation?

President who refused to create a welfare system, because people would not return to work

22nd Amendment

New Deal program created to protect the money in banks in order to restore confidence in banks

The worst economic disaster in the history of the Unites States from 1929- 1940

stimulate or support the growth or success of something by supplying it with money.

Natural disaster caused by severe drought and loss of top-soil in the Great Plains region

The system by which all U.S. dollars can be exchanged for gold

A program that hired young men to plant trees, build reservoirs and fight forest fires

Depositors feard banks were unsound so they removed their funds/ Closing all the nation's banks

What is a Monetary Policy?

This amendment reduced the amount of time a lame duck President can stays in office

On Oct. 29, 1929 Sixteen million shares of stock are sold as the Stock Market crashes

The three main parts of FDR's New Deal addressed the following areas