APUSH - The Great Depression

The president elected after Herbert Hoover who promised to give America a "New Deal" was _________________.

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln
• Grover Cleveland

Which of the following New Deal laws/agencies regulated the buying and selling of stocks?

• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Emergency Banking Act
• Home Owners Insurance Corporation

Fireside Chats

• JFK's informal radio talks; talked about nation's problems and plan to fix them.
• FDR's informal radio talks; talked about nation's problems and plan to fix them.
• Ronald Reagan's informal radio talks; talked about nation's problems and plan to fix them.
• Offered outdoor work to unemployed single men.

Alphebet Agencies

• Offered outdoor work to unemployed single men.
• Parts of the Federal government that were created to help fulfull FDR's New Deal promises; became known by their initials.
• Name of FDR's plan to pull the country out of the Depression.
• October 29, 1929

TVA

• Used borrowed money to build dams, power plants, moved farmers, reforested land, and provided cheap electric power in the Tennessee area.
• Used borrowed money to build dams, power plants, moved farmers, reforested land, and provided cheap electric power in the Virginia area.
• One of the many programs of the New Deal that put people to work.
• Make shift community for homeless during the Depression.

(FDIC) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Provided insurance for people who put money in banks.
• Insurance
• Law that provided for 12 Federal Reserve Banks- failed to prevent collapse of banking system.
• October 29, 1929

Eleanor Roosevelt

• Reporter during 1929.
• Used borrowed money to build dams, power plants, moved farmers, reforested land, and provided cheap electric power in the Tennessee area.
• Wife of the President, wanted civil rights for all.
• Name given to the period of economic down turn that began in 1929.

During the 1930s, the conditions shown in this photograph occurred mainly

• on the Atlantic Coast
•  on the Great Plains
• in the Rocky Mountains
• in the Pacific Northwest

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

What were the major goals of the New Deal?

• no gold standard and free coinage of silver
• abolition and suffrage
• relief, recovery, and reform
• expanding the size and economic influence of the United States