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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.
Although he had no specific plans for fighting the Great Depression, this man was elected President in
1932.
The New Deal attempted to deal with this fundamental problem of the
farmers.
FDR attempted to “pack” this in order to prevent his New Deal reforms from being declared
unconstitutional.
This act paid subsidies to farmers and was declared unconstitutional.
This prevented people from losing money they deposited in the bank; it
still exists today.
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.
This commission was chiefly designed to correct the abuses in the
stock market.
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.
This industry boomed in the 1930s for it offered an escape from the
dismal reality of the times.
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.
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.
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.”
At the site of this Binghamton restaurant was a speakeasy
during Prohibition.