Ch.22 The Great Depression and the New Deal | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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#40 the highest tariff ever

Smoot-Hawley Tariff

#9 What country was the USA lending much money to before the Great Depression?

Germany

#14 List 3 improvements from the New Deal.

business and farm prices went up, unemployment went down, more electricity, public buildings and parks were improved, restored hope in America

#19 had the "Share Our Wealth" plan

Huey Long

#27 FDR's plan to get out the Depression

The New Deal

#24 another name for the Civilian Conservation Corps

The Soil Soldiers

#31 the name for the Plains in the 1930s during a severe drought

Dust Bowl

#8 Who did Hoover think had the responsibility of giving aid to the needy?

local government (state/county/city)

#25 an organization under FDR's New Deal that did public nature projects in some southern states to provide jobs

The Tennessee Valley Authority

#10 List 2 things FDR did as soon as he got into office.

special session of Congress, bank holidays, fireside chats

#22 What did FDR try to help stabilize banks?

bank holidays

#1 Why were Congress and the American people against FDR's court-packing plan?

They thought it would upset the balance of power between the branches of government.

#18 What act started the Congress of Industrial Organizations?

Wagner Act

#39 What is buying "on margin"

buying stock on credit; buying only part(a margin) of your stock with your own cash and getting a bank loan to buy the rest

#32 What date was warning of the coming stock market crash?

Black Thursday

Name 2 reasons for the Dust Bowl.

overgrazing, cultivation, drought

Why did liberals criticize the New Deal?

They thought it did not go far enough. They thought it needed to be more socialistic.

#34 shanty towns during the Depression

Hoovervilles

#2 Where did Charles Coughlin share his disapproval of the New Deal?

on his radio show

#17 old-age insurance program

Social Security

#33 What was the Bonus Army?

WW1 veterans who marched on Washington D.C. and demanded their bonus early

#6 Why did conservatives criticize the New Deal?

They thought it gave the government too much power; it went too far.

#37 state with a land boom in the 1920s based on speculation

Florida

#12 List 2 problems for farmers in the Great Depression.

the Dust Bowl (drought), overgrazing, overproduction since WW1, low prices, debt, dependence on government intervention

#20 term for "a slump in business" (not as bad as a depression)

recession

#30 FDR said "The only thing we have to fear is ______________."

fear itself

#26 an organization under FDR's New Deal that gave a business a Blue Eagle "seal of approval"

National Recovery Administration

#16 FDR's plan to overcome opposition to the New Deal

court packing

#21 FDR's advisers

the brain trust

#38 What is a "dole"?

a handout

#36 year the stock market crashed

1929!

List 2 kinds of workers that received jobs from the New Deal.

construction, conservationists, artists, directors, actors, authors

#13 won the elections of 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944

FDR

#29 disease that paralyzed FDR

polio

#7 Give 2 people or groups that criticized FDR and his New deal.

conservatives, liberals, Francis Townshend, Huey Long, Charles Coughlin

#15 List 3 problems with the New Deal.

massive national debt, over-budget spending continued, increased power of the federal government-especially the president, more people dependent on welfare

#11 What group became FDR's "rubber stamp" during his first term and just did whatever he wanted?

Congress

#28 FDR's special way of communicating with the people

fireside chat

#35 What was the only government agency that Hoover set up that gave loans from the government to businesses?

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation

#23 an act under FDR's New Deal that raised farm prices, but was later struck down as unconstitutional

Agricultural Adjustment Act