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Great Depression(12/17)


 



  • 1) What was the practice of purchasing stocks at a percentage of their
    cost and paying the remainder later called?

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  • 2) What is the day that the stock market crashed referred to as?
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  • 3) What was President Hoover's initial response and philosophy for
    getting out of the great depression called that relied on each
    person to look for themselves?

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  • 4) What is the term for buying stocks at great risk with the
    anticipation that the price will rise?

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  • 5) What type of purchasing became popular during the twenties in which
    one could purchase items now and pay for them as they go? This led
    to many people being in debt.

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  • 6) What were the little towns of hobos, unemployed and homeless called
    during the Great Depression?

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  • 7) What were indicative of the great depression in which people stood
    in long lines for free food?

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  • 8) What did President Roosevelt use to help bolster the confidence and
    morale of the people throughout the depression and WWII?

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  • 9) What was passed in 1930 as an attempt to protect American
    manufacturers from foreign competition but in fact deepened the
    Great Depression?

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  • 10) One idea that President Roosevelt had to assist the country during
    the Great Depression involved the government spending more money
    than it raised in taxes. What philosophy is this called?

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  • 11) What was the group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington to
    demand the payment of bunuses that Congress promised?

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  • 12) What was President Roosevelt's program for ending the Great
    Depression called?

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  • 13) Many banks experienced this in which their depositors demanded their
    money at the same time thereby bankrupting many banks?

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  • 14) The time between March 9 and June 16, 1933 in which Congress passed
    15 laws to deal tieh the nation's economy following President
    Roosevelt's inauguration>

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  • 15) The government agency set up to regulate the stock market and
    prevent fraud is called what?

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  • 16) The nickname given to the many programs created by Roosevelt's New
    Deal progrma is called what?

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  • 17) This provided government insurance for bank depositors up to
    $100,000 per bank per customer and was a response to the number of
    individuals that lost everything in the bank during the depression?

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  • 18) This agency administered Roosevelt's farm program and actually
    subsidized farmers income by asking them not to produce more crops?

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  • 19) This relief program put young men to work planting trees, fighting
    fires, and building resevoirs for our interior.

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  • 20) This New Deal program provided security for the elderly and the
    unemployed and may be the most lasting program of the New Deal?

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  • 21) This federal agency provided jobs for the building of roads,
    buildings, parks and provided jobs to artists and writers as well.

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  • 22) What was Roosevelt's plan for dealing with the unfavorable decisions
    being handed down by the judicial branch in dealing with his New
    Deal programs?Was it successful?why not?

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  • 23) This agency controlled industrial production and prices with
    industry and created codes of fair competition? Businesses
    supporting it displayed a blue eagle in their windows.

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  • 24) This was passed guaranteeing workers the right to organize unions
    without interference from employers and to bargain collectively?

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  • 25) The first female cabinet member was the Secretary of Labor during
    Roosevelt's administration.

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  • 26) An opponent of the New Deal saying it didn't go far enough and
    pushed for the "Share Our Wealth" program.

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  • 27) Another opponent of Roosevelt's moderate reform program calling for
    more drastic action and creating the National Union for Social
    Justice was who?

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  • 28) What was passed in 1938 which provided more protection for workers,
    abolished child labor, and established a 40 hour work week to come
    into effect within 3 years?

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  • 29) What had President Roosevelt said the nation had to fear in his
    first inaugural address?

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  • 30) What is the lasting legacy of the New Deal?
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  • 31) What are the four main causes of the Great Depression?
  • 32) What are the three R's of Roosevelt's New Deal and provide examples
    for each?

   


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