SS study guide

New Deal

________: was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans.

Securities and Exchange Commission

The ________ protected stock market investments of millions of small investors.

Wagner Act

The ________ reduced violence in labor relations.

FDR

________- election: New Deal attacked the crisis on the Great Plains on a number of fronts.

Legacy of New Deal

________: unemployment insurance, old age insurance, and insured bank deposits.

Dorothea Lange

________: ________ and her husband Paul Taylor, a social scientist from UC Berkeley, were hired by the State of California to document the plight of these Dust Bowl refugees.

Fireside chats

________: Roosevelt continued to use ________ throughout his presidency to address the fears and concerns of the American people as well as to inform them of the positions and actions taken by the U.S. government.

Geography

________: Dust Bowl, name for both the drought period in the Great Plains that lasted from 1930 to 1936 and the section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico.

Escapism

________: Attending movies, listening to the radio, dancing to live music, and reading cheap magazines or books containing sensational or gruesome material, popularly known as pulp fiction, allowed people to ________ from the uncertainties, anxieties, and loss of self- esteem associated with the Depression years.

Social Impact of Great Depression

________: the Great Depression brought a rapid rise in the crime rate as many unemployed workers resorted to petty theft to put food on the table.