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Great Depression

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This was the most immediate cause of the Great Depression.

Stock Market Crash

This president believed in rugged individualism and hence provided no

direct relief to the poor.

Hoover

Although he had no specific plans for fighting the Great Depression, this man was elected President in

1932.

FDR

The New Deal attempted to deal with this fundamental problem of the

farmers.

Overproduction

FDR attempted to “pack” this in order to prevent his New Deal reforms from being declared

unconstitutional.

Supreme Court

This act paid subsidies to farmers and was declared unconstitutional.

AAA

This prevented people from losing money they deposited in the bank; it

still exists today.

FDIC

This administration hired males and females to construct buildings,

roads, etc. and probably funded this school.

Works Progress Administration

This corps hired men to plant trees, build parks, etc.

CCC

This commission was chiefly designed to correct the abuses in the

stock market.

SEC

Immigration legislation of the 1920s favored immigrants from these 2

regions of Europe.

Northern and Western

This feeling of distrust for foreigners and an “America for Americans”

was on the rise in the 1920s.

nativism

This industry boomed in the 1930s for it offered an escape from the

dismal reality of the times.

Radio/Film

This act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court who deemed the federal

government could not stretch its power over intrastate commerce in Schecter Poultry Corp. v. the US

NRA (or part of the NIRA)

This army was denied its money by Congress under the Hoover

administration.

Bonus

Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen were members of this

movement.

The Harlem Renaissance

These were the raids that attempted to find communists during the Red

Scare.

Palmer

This was the local product of the CCC’s work

Chenango Valley State Park

This Steinbeck book discusses the plight of a family of migrant

workers.

The Grapes of Wrath

This photographer captured the plight of the “Migrant Mother.”

Dorothea Lange

At the site of this Binghamton restaurant was a speakeasy

during Prohibition.