History: Module 10 The Depression & FDR

T/F: While the stock market crash shook people's confidence, it did NOT cause the Depression

By 1932, what percentage of the population was out of work?

He wanted the government to nationalize all of the country's wealth and natural resources

this program insured savings accounts in banks approved by the government

The sum paid regularly to a person, usually after retirement 

to buy a stock, pay only a fraction of the cost, and borrow the rest

Hoover authorized federal spending on projects for

This person acted as the "eyes and ears" of the president

an organized system for buying and selling shares in a corporation

shantytowns were known as

this program set up a system of pensions for the elderly

Many unemployed workers traveled around the country by hitchhiking on

severe economic crisis

this program built dams to provide cheap electric power to seven southern states

this program paid farmers to NOT grow certain crops

almost 13 million shares of stock were sold on

This was the unpopular action used by FDR to keep the New Deal from being undone

aid for the needy

The special session of Congress in which 15 new program proposals were passed

As a member of the Black Cabinet, she worked to improve educational opportunities for African Americans

failure to meet loan payments

this program provided jobs planting trees, building bridges and parks

this program created the power to punish dishonest stockbrokers and speculators