America, History of Our Nation
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| 543806405 | Problems with the U.S. economy started in the... | Late 1920's. | |
| 543806406 | Industries were declining ,but stock prices were still... | High. | |
| 543806407 | Risky investments were made by... | Investors/brokers. | |
| 543806408 | When stock prices started to fall, margin buyers... | Forced to sell & pay off loans. | |
| 543806409 | Margin buyers | People who payed a fraction of the purchase price. | |
| 543806410 | The day the stock market crashed | October 29, 1929. | |
| 543806411 | 10/29 known as... | Black Tuesday. | |
| 543806412 | The Great Depression lasted... | 12 years. | |
| 543806413 | Depression was triggered by... | The stock market, overproduction, and banking crisis. | |
| 543806414 | A problem that caused the Depression, it was when factories produced more goods than people could afford or buy. | Overproduction. | |
| 543806415 | Banks closed because... | Farmers could not repay their loans, and from loses in the stock market. | |
| 543806416 | people had less money because... | people were losing jobs & company's went bankrupt | |
| 543806417 | From 1929 to 1933 employment went from... | 3% to 25%. | |
| 543806418 | Number of people without jobs | 13 million. | |
| 543806419 | People lacked... | Food, shelter, and clothing. | |
| 543806420 | The Great Depression was a time of widespread... | Poverty. | |
| 543806421 | FDR took office in... | 1933. | |
| 543806422 | Goals of FDR's New Deal... | Relief for the jobless, promoting economic recovery, and reforming the economic system. | |
| 543806423 | Emergency Banking Relief Act | Provided more careful government regulation of banks. | |
| 543806424 | Federal Emergency Relief Administration | (FERA) Granted funds to states so they could reopen shuttered relief agencies. | |
| 543806425 | Civilian Conservation Corps | (CCC) Employed jobless adults. | |
| 543806426 | Works Progress Administration | (WPA) Put people to work building or repairing public buildings. | |
| 543806427 | National Recovery Administration | (NRA) Aimed to keep prices stable while boosting employment. | |
| 543806428 | Public Works Administration | (PWA) Built large public works projects. | |
| 543806429 | Tennessee Valley Authority | (TVA) Built dams along the Tennessee River. | |
| 543806430 | Truth-in-Securities Act | Required corp. to inform public about stocks. | |
| 543806431 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | (FDIC) Protected bank depositors. | |
| 543806432 | Federal Power Commission | (FPC) Helped control the oil and gas industries. | |
| 543806433 | Women who worked as secretaries and salesclerks often kept their jobs ,but... | Domestic & factory workers didn't. | |
| 543806434 | African Americans suffered more... | Unemployment, homelessness, illness, and hunger than whites. | |
| 543806435 | Mexicans & Mexican Americans were... | Forced out of work & deported. | |
| 543806436 | Native Americans were among the... | Poorest. | |
| 543806437 | The Dust Bowl was located... | Southwestern plains. | |
| 543806438 | The dust storms began in... | 1930. | |
| 543806439 | The dust bowl lasted... | 5 years. | |
| 543806440 | The dust bowled turned 100 million acres of farmland into wasteland forcing many farm families to go to... | California. | |
| 543806441 | The movies helped people... | Forget what was going on. | |
| 543806442 | Radio was... | A vital part of everyday life. | |
| 543806443 | Labor reforms provided ... | Minimum wage and workers the right to join unions. | |
| 543806444 | Federal money to states provided... | Temporary payment funds to the unemployed. | |
| 543806445 | People lived in makeshift areas called... | Hoovervilles. | |
| 543806446 | Schools lacked... | Funding. | |
| 543806447 | Banks in the Great Depression... | Failed. |
