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  • Q1
    October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed
    Black Tuesday
    30s
  • Q2
    Causes of the Great Depression
    too much installment buying, stock market crash, banking collapse
    30s
  • Q3
    Economic hard times that lasted from 1929-1940s
    Great Depression
    30s
  • Q4
    When depositors rushed to their banks to withdraw all of their savings
    bank runs
    30s
  • Q5
    Set up by private charities and churches to offer free food to the unemployed
    soup kitchens
    30s
  • Q6
    Presented the American people with a New Deal to solve the problems of the Great Depression, former governor of NY. People felt he wanted to take immediate action to help them.
    Franklin Roosevelt
    30s
  • Q7
    FDR's first 100 days in office; first action was to close all banks on a "bank holiday," sent dozens of New Deal bills to Congress to help the economy and the unemployed
    The First 100 Days
    30s
  • Q8
    The 30 speeches that FDR gave while in office to keep the American people updated about the progress of the New Deal
    fireside chats
    30s
  • Q9
    Gave public works jobs to young unmarried men ($1 per day) to build parks, plant trees, dig drainage ditches - physical work
    CCC-Civilian Conservation Corps
    30s
  • Q10
    Put jobless to work building hospitals,schools, parks, and airports (laboreres, architects, engineers, artists)
    WPA-Works Progress Administration
    30s
  • Q11
    Set standards in wages, production, and prices
    National Recovery Act
    30s
  • Q12
    Asked farmers to reduce production and destroy surplus crops/livestock so prices of their crops and livestock would rise
    AAA-Agricultural Adjustment Act
    30s
  • Q13
    Gave jobs rebuilding the Tennessee Valley; brought flood relief and hydroelectric power to the area
    TVA-Tennessee Valley Authority
    30s
  • Q14
    Provided insurance on bank accounts up to $100,000 ($250,000 today)- still around today
    FDIC-Federal Depository Insurance Corporation
    30s
  • Q15
    FDR's plan to "pack" the Supreme Court with supportive justices to keep his New Deal programs from being declared unconstitutional
    court packing scheme
    30s

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