American Studies Chap 27 FDR/New Deal

Well known folk singer of the Depression Era with musical influences on Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, & Bruce Springstein?

He was president during nearly all the Great Depression? 

This was FDR's program for providing relief, recovery, and reform? The US Congress helped too!

Federal government paid farmers to lower their production in hopes of raising farm prices

Provided for an old age insurance/pension program. Still around today! Might see it come out of your paycheck as FICA

This rebuilt dams and provided hydroelectric power to an impoverished area?  

President Herbert Hoover supported direct relief to help people during the Depression.  

This may have been a long term impact for many living through the Great Depression?

One of most popular & well paid comedians of the 1930s! "Makin Whoopee"

Men and boys who rode the rails in search of work.  Steam Train Maury is the most famous! 

This ultimately/finally ended the US depression?  

1st to set national minimum wage/40-hour work week. Outlawed child labor!

The Home Owners Loan Corporation and Farm Credit Administration focused on this troubling issue?

Overall unemployment rate in the US during the Great Depression? 

Roosevelt was successful in the reorganization/adding of justices to the Supreme Court

This raised taxes on the rich and established estate and gift taxes?

Environmental disaster in the Great Plains during the depression. 

Created to monitor the stock market and enforce laws regarding the sale of stocks and bonds? 

Harpo, Chico and Groucho!

Amendment moving up presidential inauguration from March to January. We need the new president in the WH sooner!

This song epitomized the feelings of many Americans during the Great Depression?

Term specifically refers to stock market crash of October 29, 1929

Well known slapstick comedy trio of the 1930s and beyond!

Put 3 million young men to work building parks, dams, trails, and fire towers? Lots of work in state & national parks

It's a beloved 1939 classic! Kansas is a rough place to live now, let alone in 1939! :)

Classic novel by John Steinbeck, the story of Okies moving to California. 

FDR had to be politically conscience of not alienating___ ___.They wanted no political support from union or blacks.

Part of 1st New Deal. Established fair codes of competition, wages, prices. Think Blue Eagle!

Originally created to protect people's bank accounts for up to $5K at the time.  

Landmark legislation! Protected labor's right to unionize and collectively bargain

Disney movie that came out in 1937, first feature-length animated film?