STAAR Review: Great Depression/New Deal

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First lady under FDR's administration and humanitarian. Expanded the role of First Lady into a more active political partnership

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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President who was blamed for the Great Depression. Promoted Rugged Individualism. Hoovervilles; criticism for response to Bonus Army

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Herbert Hoover

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President of the United States during the Depression and WWII. He instituted the New Deal. Served from 1933 to 1945, he was the only president in U.S. history to be elected to four terms

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Franklin Roosevelt

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President FDR's failed 1937 attempt to increase the number of US Supreme Court Justices - faced criticism for creating an over powerful executive

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Court Packing

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Radio broadcasts made by FDR to reassure the public, restore confidence, and inform the public

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Fireside Chats

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Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress

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Hoovervilles

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Dust bowls caused by drought, high winds, overproduction of crops, loss of prairie grasses

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Dust Bowl

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Half a million Mexican-American workers were forcibly sent "back" to Mexico to reduce competition for jobs

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Mexican Repatriation

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Agency established under Hoover in 1932 to provide emergency relief to large businesses, insurance companies, and banks.

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

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New Deal