Unit 5 The Great Depression & New Deal

Question 1

Investors purchased a stock on credit, it would be given at a high interest rate which brokers could demand payment

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Buying on margin

Question 2

To create as many jobs as possible by creating public buildings

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Works Progress Administration

Question 3

Hoover's plan to ask all business and industrial leaders to work together

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Volunteerism

Question 4

The day the stock market crashed

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Black Tuesday

Question 5

The practice of making high risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits

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Speculation

Question 6

The goal with to bring life back into the economy

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Question 7

When you invest in the top the money will trickle down to the people at the bottom

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Trickle Down Economics

Question 8

Created to end wage cuts, minimize falling prices and layoffs

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National Recovery Administration

Question 9

Provided federal insurance for individuals bank accounts of less than $5,000

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Glass-Steagall Banking Act

Question 10

Guaranteed the bonus pay in 1945, while the Bonus Army wanted the payment now

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The Patman Bill

Question 11

800 million dollar landmark that created new jobs, located between Arizona and Nevada

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Hoover Dam

Question 12

Large storm that was formed by topsoil not holding onto the ground in the Great Plain states

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The Dust Bowl

Question 13

Makeshift shanty towns of shacks and tents on public or vacant lots

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Hoovervilles

Question 14

This was created to regulate trade on the stock market & forced corporations to share information about their stock

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Federal Securities Act

Question 15

To help furnish food and clothing to the unemployed, elderly, and sick

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Federal Emergency Relief Act

Question 16

Young men worked various jobs like building roads, planting trees, and controlling floods

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Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 17

Protective tariff that raised prices on imports so that they could not compete

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 18

Created to help farmers and to put an end to overprodution

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

Question 19

Inspected the financial health of all banks, if they could not pay off the debt they would remain closed

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Emergency Banking Act

Questions 19