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This is essentially buying stocks on credit because the investor

only puts down a small percentage of the actual price

What is margin buying?

When the Great Depression began, he believed that it

would be short so he didn’t do much

Who is Herbert Hoover?

FDR was afraid that the Great Depression would lead to this sort of government in the U.S.

What is a dictatorship?

These are FDR’s “Three Rs”

What are relief, recovery, and reform?

Overproduction + Underconsumption = _________

What is unemployment?

This woman first introduced FDR to the inner city poor

Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?

The name given to the day the stock market crashed

What is Black Tuesday?

This best describes the economic situation when

Hoover was electedWhat is booming/prosperous?

This was the subject of FDR’s first Fireside Chat

What is banking?

This time period at the beginning of FDR’s administration was important because many laws

were passed to help the country

What is the First 100 Days?

The name for the region plagued by dust storms in the

1930s and 40s

What is the Dust Bowl?

These people fled the Midwest for California,

where they were faced with discrimination and hatred

Who are Okies?

Americans of this national heritage were rounded up and deported in California because

of the labor surplus

What is Mexicans?

Hoover believed that the establishment of these would best aid struggling farmers

What are cooperatives (co-ops)?

This Lincoln era act was partially responsible for the widespread destruction of

land in the MidwestWhat is the Homestead Act (1862)?

This insured bank deposits (now up to $100,000)

What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

(FDIC)?

This established a pension system for retired workers

What is the Social Security Act (SSA)?

This was passed during the First 100 Days to ensure the

stability of banks

What is the Emergency Banking Act (EBA)?

This was the first legislation designed to provide direct

relief to the needy

What is the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)?

Hoover actually created this organization to give money to big businesses early on in the

Great Depression

What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)?

This helped electrify the rural south and

built electrical dams

What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?

This gave young men jobs doing environmental work

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?

What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?

This controversial act paid farmers to plow under crops

and kill livestock to raise prices…even though people were starving across the U.S.

This organization controlled wages and prices…

unfortunately it also forced small business owners out

What is the National Recovery Administration (NRA)?

This provided young people with job training and

educational scholarships

What is the National Youth Administration (NYA)?