Great Depression/New Deal Review

Black Tuesday

• Group of WWI vets who marched on DC to obtain a service gratuity

• Tax on important goods, leads to price increases

• October 29, 1929: Date the stock market crashed

• Shanty Towns built in cities by out of work citizens

Court Packing

• FDR’s plan to add justices to the Supreme Court that were sympathetic to New Deal Programs

• Stock market strategy, buying stocks on borrowed money

• A system whereby the government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens

• New Deal legislation, insures bank deposits up to $5,000.

Dust Bowl

• Farmers who farm rented land

• Ecological disaster in the Great Plains, dust storms and soil erosion.

• New Deal program designed to bring power to rural communities in the Appalachian region.

• Stock market strategy, buying stocks on borrowed money.

Localism

• A system whereby the government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens.

• New Deal legislation, insures bank deposits up to $5,000.

• Farmers who farm rented land.

• Hoover’s method of dealing with the depression, relying on states and cities to help citizens.

Public Works Administration (PWA)

• New Deal program that created jobs for millions of Americans in public works

• New Deal legislation, insures bank deposits up to $5,000

• New Deal legislation, gives pensions for elderly and unemployment insurance

• New Deal program designed to bring power to rural communities in the Appalachian region.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• New Deal legislation, gives pensions for elderly and unemployment insurance

• New Deal program designed to bring power to rural communities in the Appalachian region.

• October 29, 1929: Date the stock market crashed

• Hoover’s method of dealing with the depression, relying on states and cities to help citizens.

Welfare State

• A system whereby the government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens.

• Stock market strategy, buying stocks on borrowed money

• FDR’s plan to add justices to the Supreme Court that were sympathetic to New Deal Programs.

• Shanty Towns built in cities by out of work citizens.

Tariff

• Farmers who farm rented land.

• Tax on important goods, leads to price increases.

• Group of WWI vets who marched on DC to obtain a service gratuity

• Hoover’s method of dealing with the depression, relying on states and cities to help citizens.

Fireside Chat

• Form of protest where workers enter the plant and refuse to work.

• FDR’s plan to add justices to the Supreme Court that were sympathetic to New Deal Programs.

• October 29, 1929: Date the stock market crashed.

• FDR’s radio broadcasts where he appealed directly to the people

 Sit-Down Strike

• New Deal program designed to bring power to rural communities in the Appalachian region.

• FDR’s radio broadcasts where he appealed directly to the people.

• Shanty Towns built in cities by out of work citizens

• Form of protest where workers enter the plant and refuse to work.