Great Depression and New Deal Test

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Buying on the margin

This term specifically refers to paying a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrowing the rest

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Francis Perkins

She became the first female cabinet member as secretary of labor

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

The program from hoover unauthorized 2 billion to banks, life insurance company, railroads, and other large businesses

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NIRA and the AAA

Acts that were struck down for being unconstitutional by the supreme court

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Rickets

Name of the disease many children suffered from as a result of poor diets

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Mary Mcleod Bethune

Head of the Division of Negro Affairs of the NYA

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Poor Man’s Divorce

Divorce rates increased so most men went to..

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Hobos

Name given to men who traveled across the country for work

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What year did the stock market crash?

1929

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What state was an agency named after that looked to prevent floods, teach soil management and provide electricity?

Tennessee

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Who was sent by hoover to disband the bonus army?

Douglas Macarthur and Dwight D Eisenhower

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New Deal Coalition

Made up of diverse groups dedicated to supporting FDR, the ND, and democrats

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Federal Farm Board

Initiated by hoover, this bought crops to keep off the market until prices rose

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Speculation

refers to making extremely risky business transactions on te chance of making quick or considerable profits

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Glass-Segal Act

This act created the FDIC

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Dr Francis Townsend

This critic of the ND believed strongly in a old age pension plan

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Federal Home Loan Bank Act

This act lowered the mortgage rates and allowed farmers to refinance to avoid foreclosure

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Emergency Banking Relief Act

Name of the act FDR had congress pass to inspect banks

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CCC

This administration provided jobs for men ages 16-25 paying then 5 dollars a month with 25 going to their families

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Dust Bowl

Name given to the area that experienced severe droughts in the 1930s

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Hawley Smoot Tariff

This reduced the flow of goods into the US and prevented other countries from earning american currency to buy american goods

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Inside out pockets became known as

hoover flags

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Huey Long

This critic appreciated individual income and place limit on wealth

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HooverVilles or Shantytowns

Name of rundown areas people who were excited from their houses lived

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This is an arrangement in which consumers agree to buy now and pay later..

credit

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New Deal programs that can be categorized into these three categories

Relief, recover, reform

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This proposed WWI veterans be paid early for their service

patman bill

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The belief that people succeed through hard work and will take care of themselves rather than depend on the gov

rugged individualism

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Fireside Chat

FDR regularly made these speeches that made americans feel as though he was talking to them

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