NEW DEAL PROGRAMS | FDR and Hoover | Early Depression | Shirley Temple | What's Left |
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What is Tennessee Valley Authority
Jobs program employing people to build giant dams in this southeastern state.
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What is New Deal
Roosevelts plan to fix the Great Depression
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What is Overproduction
Supply of durable goods is greater than the demand
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What are Migrant Workers
People who travel from farm to farm harvesting crops
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What is Social Security Act
Provided pensions for the elderly
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What is National Recovery Act
Designed to help businesses keep prices stable, boost employment and buying power
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What is Fireside Chats
FDR's radio talks to the American people
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What is Default
Failure to repay a loan
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What ii a Pension
Retirement Payments
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What is 25%
Unemployment rate at the worst of the Depression
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What is Civilian Conservation Corp
Jobs program employing young men to plant trees, dig trails and build the Whitney Point Res
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What is Bonus Army
WW1 veterans who were to receive a 1000 dollar payment in 1945. Marched to Washington to demand their money
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What is Bankruptcy
this can happen when someone can't pay their bills
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What is a Sit Down Strike
Workers stop working to protest low wages or no contract negotiations
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What is Polio
FDR couldn't walk because of this disease
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What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Economic program that guarantees people's bank accounts up to $250,000
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What are Hoovervilles
Shantytowns of homeless people
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What is Dust Bowl
Drought, over farming/plowing caused this disaster on the Great Plains
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What is the end of the Great Depression
Attack on Pearl Harbor, 12/7/41
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What is FICA
Acronym of the tax that you will pay every payday of your working life
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What is Public Works Administration
Jobs program employing people to build schools (NVMS), tunnels, highways and dams
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What is Great Depression
Greatest economic disaster in U.S. history
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What is Black Tuesday
The date that the stock market crashed
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What is Collective Bargaining
Unions (workers) negotiate with management (bosses) for fair contracts (wages and benefits
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What is Germany
By the late 1930s, the depression was gone in this country
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