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Hoovervilles
Shanty towns made up makeshift huts and tents that were constructed on the edges of towns and cities.
What are shares?
Ways for businesses to earn easy money
What did FDR do that saved many of the buisnesses?
His attempt to save bank systems
A crash in shares in the stock market caused all these except?
Welfare Benefits
Much of business was saved because of FDR's speedy action to save what?
Banking system
All of the following were forced off of the land because of government plans to produce production except?
Botanists
Why were there fewer workers needed in agriculture and production?
Increase in machinery
Large scale farmers benefited from all of the following except what?
Dust bowl
Well before the US was in WWII they have increased supplying armaments with?
UK and france
What protected millions of Americans from the worsts effects of the Depression?
Welfare payments
What are laws that seduce of end racial discrimination?
Civil rights
What often happens after overproduction?
Loss of jobs
Trade unions membership increased by 7 million because of the?
Wagner Act
What is a politician who favors the middle ground policy, rejecting extreme solutions?
Moderate
What considered the most exciting and eye catching project of the first hundred days?
TVA
Which of the following gave workers the right to join trade unions?
Wagner Act
Who wanted to add 6 additional judges to the Supreme Court?
FDR
Who wanted to add 6 additional judges to the Supreme Court?
FDR
In the 1930's how many judges were on the Supreme Court?
9
Who's scheme was called "Share The Wealth"
Huey Long
Who did the Social Security act not provide for?
Military
What was the first phase of the New Deal called?
Hundred days
How many states did FDR win out of 48 in the 1932 election?
42
How many states did FDR win out of 48 in the 1932 election?
42
Which agency provided young men ages 18 to 25 jobs?
CCC
What was the nickname given to government agencies known for by their initials?
Alphabet Agencies
What was the name of FDR's national radio broadcast?
Fireside Chats
The American law-making assemblies, The House of Representatives , and the Senate
Congress
FDR's personal difficulty?
Polio
New deal aims?
Relief, reform, recovery
What percentage of the workforce was unemployed in 1933?
25%
Was an attempt to help farmers?
AAA
Why would FDR not have been able to have total control over the economy?
Congress would never allow it
What year did the U.S. see a sharp rise in unemployment?
1938
What is not a sign of economic slow down before the stock market crash?
Radio sales were up
What is often bought and sold in the stock market?
Shares
What was not a structural weakness that pitched the nation into the depression?
Dividends
What is the direct result of a business cutting production?
Unemployment
What was the name given to WW1 vets that wanted more service money given them to 1932 instead of when it was given to them in 1935?
Bonus Army
What was payments made by the government to aid the old, sick, and unemployed called?
Welfare Benefits
What do business sell in attempt to raise money?
Shares
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