Depression & New Deal Review

chapters 12-13(includes notes taken)

List 3 causes of the Great Depression (notes)

Over production, stock market crash, unequal distribution of

wealth, monetary policy

What did Herbert Hoover do to try to end the Depression

(384-6)

Started public works programs like Boulder (Hoove) Dam

What did the US Army do to evacuate the Bonus Marchers

from Washington, DC (notes/387)

Used force-bayonets tear gas, tanks

I was smeared in the 1928 election because of my

religion- Catholic (notes)

Al Smith-gov. of NY

What happened to depositor’s money when banks collapsed in

the Great Depression (370)

Gone

lost

What was the reason why farmers began to loose their

crops in 1932 (367-77)

Drought conditions

President Hoover held the belief that who should help the

unemployed (notes/384-85)

State & local government

Private charity

Why did WWI veterans come to Washington, DC in 1932

(notes/387)

Veterans were supporting legislation to grant their bonuses

early

The purpose of the Reconstruction Finance

Corporation was to (notes/386)

Stimulate the economy

What did speculators do (term-quizlet)

Purchase risky stock in hopes of getting a quick profit

When did the stock market crash? (370)

Black Tuesday-Oct 29, 1929

“Hoovervilles” (367)

Nickname for shantytowns named after president Hoover-who was

blamed for the economic problems

How were FDR & Theodore Roosevelt related? (397)

Distant cousins

The ___________ paid farmers to plow under much of their crops

(400)

AAA agriculture adjustment act

What New Deal Programs did the Supreme Court declare

unconstitutional? (notes/video/410)

NRA

AAA

Why was there a ‘bank holiday’? (399)

FDR closed all banks to make sure they were financially sound

before they would re-open

___________ was created to regulate the stock market

(notes)

Securities & Exchange Commission

(SEC)

To set up codes of fair competition ______ was

established. (notes)

NRA

Explain FDR’s “court packing” plan…why did he propose it?

(notes/410)

FDR wanted to increase the number of SC justices that would

support his new deal plans

Court packing would interfere with the powers granted in the

Constitution

The __________ program employed people in the arts

(notes/)

Federal Project No. 1

(part of the WPA)

Which federal agency provided benefits to the

South? (notes/400)

TVA-Tenn. Valley Authority

New Deal was ________ policies for ending the

Depression. (397)

FDRs

What disease did FDR contract? And what effect did

it have on his body? (397)

Polio-made it very difficult for him to walk w/out assistance

What was it called when newly elected FDR sent bill after bill to Congress? (days..) (398)

100 days

Why did FDR use fireside chats? (notes/399)

To reassure the American public of his new policies

________ hired workers directly, including women, to

build/improve airports, roads, & playgrounds; this program only

last one year (notes)

Civil Works Admin. (CWA)

________was established to provide for some security of

unemployed workers. (notes)

Social Security

________ provided for industrial recovery &

unemployment relief. (notes)

Public Works Admin (PWA)

__________ covered people’s savings in banks against loss

(notes/399)FDIC (federal deposit insurance

corporation)

RELIEF (notes)

Short term programs to revive the economy

RECOVERY (notes)

Long term programs to revive the economy

REFORM (notes)

Changing the country’s policies

_________ built dinosaur park in Rapid City, SD. (notes)

WPA

This program offered unemployed to young men work

planting trees, fighting forest fires, & building reservoirs:

(notes/400)

CCC