Unit 5: Great Depression & New Deal vocabulary review

Front

A persistent and heavy demand by a bank's depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money is known as a what?

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Bank Run

Front

The closing of banks during the Great Depression to avoid banks running out of money is called a what?

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Bank Holiday

Front

Radio broadcasts made by FDR to the American people to explain how he was addressing and fixing the Great Depression came be known by what name?

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Fireside Chats

Front

When you borrow money from a broker to purchase stock, what are you doing?

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Buying on margin

Front

The name given for both the drought period in the Great Plains, lasting from 1930 to 1936.

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Dust Bowl

Front

A severe dust storm occurring in the Great Plains were given what name?

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Black Blizzards

Front

Huey Long presented a program guaranteeing minimum income and allowance for land for homestead families while limiting the wealth of the extremely rich. What was the name of that program?

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Share Our Wealth

Front

Shack towns and homeless encampments that arose during the Great Depression were given what name, based on the name of the President blamed for "causing" the Great Depression?

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Hoovervilles

Front

The idea shared by President Hoover that the Great Depression would be fixed by people being independent, self-reliant, and hard work without government involvement was called what?

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Rugged Individualism

Front

The government created program that guarantees the safety of your money deposited in banks is known by what acronym?

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FDIC