Great Depression/FDR New Deal

President FDR entered office with no clear agenda but his administration favored government

During the 1930s, many Americans preferred movies and radio programs that

FDR launched the bold new programs that came to be known as Second New Deal primarily because

President Roosevelt’s “court-packing plan” was a serious mistake because

By 1934 Senator Huey Long of LA began criticizing the New Deal from the left and calling for

President Roosevelt’s policies for ending the Depression became known as the

The New Deal helped establish a new voting coalition for FDR and the Democratic Party by

Stock prices first began to decline in late 1929 because

The stock market crash weakened the nation’s banks because

Social Security Act established principle that the federal government should be responsible for

President Roosevelt triggered a new economic downturn in 1937 by

To regulate the stock market, Congress created the

To fight the Depression, the first thing that President Roosevelt set out to do was to

Farmers on the Great Plains began to lose their crops during the Depression because

Thousands of World War I veterans came to Washington, D.C., in 1932 to lobby Congress to

One purpose of the Townsend plan was to

Most economists agree that a key cause of the Depression was

During the Depression, charities set up _______________to give poor people a meal.

Framers of the Social Security Act saw it primarily as

President Hoover hoped that public works would