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President
Who consists of the executive branch of government?
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Social Security Act (SSA)
Provided workers with unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and insurance if died. Made the government more responsible for people's economic welfare.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corps (FDIC)
Insured Bank deposits so people wouldn't lose life savings during bank failure.
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Hoovervilles
Shanty towns of the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression.
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Black Tuesday
What was the day called on Tuesday, October 29, when the stock market crashed and prices were at all time lows?
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Supreme Court
Who consists of the judicial branch of the government?
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First Hundred Days
What was the time period called when FDR first took office and passed a lot of legislation?
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Built 21 government owned dams along the TN River, controlled floods, and produced electricity. Provided jobs and improved regional standard of living.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Which Democratic candidate defeated President Hoover in a landslide election in 1932 and promised Americans a New Deal to put them back to work?
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Overproduction of Consumer Goods, Overspeculation in the Stock Market, Buying on Margin, Shaky Banking, Restricted International Trade
List two causes of the Great Depression
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Dust Bowl
What was the event in which millions of farmers had to abandon their farms and move West to California?
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Relief, Recovery, Reform
What were FDR's three "R's"?
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(federal) government
Overall, the New Deal legislation gave more power to the (???) to help people during times of economic distress.
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Reducing; Increasing
The Federal reserve made things worse by (increasing/reducing) the money supply instead of (increasing/reducing) it during the Great Depression.
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People lost money in stocks, went into debt, couldn't pay mortgages/loans/rent, banks failed, lost life savings, factories closed,millions of people lost jobs, etc.
List 3 effects of the stock market crash.
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Fireside Chats
What was FDR's way of addressing the nation via radio known as?
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National Recovery Act (NIRA) because Supreme Court ruled the President couldn't have more powers than those granted in the Constitution and Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) because it was excessive government interference.
Name one of the two New Deal Acts that was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and state why.
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Which piece of legislation protected US agriculture and industry from foreign competition, yet led to a decrease in US international trade?
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Wanted the Supreme Court to support his programs. So tried to replace old Justices with newer ones that would support them.
Why did FDR attempt his Court-Packing Scheme?
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Which US President's wife was a political activist and strongly supported women's rights?
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Buying on Margin
When people purchased stocks in the 1920's with a 10% down payment, with the rest financed by a broker in the form of a loan, what is this process called? (Hint: we watched a video of a professor explaining this phenomenon)
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Mexican Repatriation Act
What was the act which President Hoover authorized to send Mexican-American immigrants back to Mexico during the Great Depression?
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Federal Housing Administration
New Deal agency that continues to assist many Americans by helping them obtain mortgages and loans from the bank.
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Liberty League (dictatorship), Father Coughlin (anti-Semitic radio addresses), or Conservatives (thought was endangering free enterprise)
List one negative reaction to the New Deal policies.
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Rugged individualism
What was Hoover's philosophy in rejecting the demands for the federal government to provide payments to the unemployed and needy because it would reduce incentive to work?
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