These flashcards with Chapter 25 of Alan Brinkley's "American History: A Survey" and deal with the Great Depression.
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| 19712787 | president who ironically predicted "poverty will be banished from this nation" | Herbert Hoover | |
| 19712788 | October 29, 1929 | Black Tuesday | |
| 19713871 | consumers were too poor to buy the goods the economy was producing | maldistribution of wealth | |
| 19713872 | Reliance on auto sales and home construction to fuel economy | lack of diversification | |
| 19713873 | "hands off" approach to the economy by gov't | laissez faire | |
| 19713874 | stock purchases based on assumed future value | speculation | |
| 19714893 | panic as depositors try to withdraw $ that a bank doesn't have | "run on the bank" | |
| 19714894 | < European demand for US goods/European economy in turmoil | declining US exports | |
| 19714895 | when US stock prices plummeted on a selling spree | crash | |
| 19714896 | Germany (poor) owed GB/FR who owed US for war debts | European debt structure | |
| 19714897 | when a bank is unable to meet repay its depositors/causes panics | bank closing | |
| 19714898 | belief that prevented Hoover from recommending direct gov't relief | personal responsibility | |
| 19714899 | when the government gives $ or food to needy people | direct relief | |
| 19720895 | series of droughts led to wind erosion of top soil in the Great Plains | Dust Bowl | |
| 19720896 | Westward heading (Calif) job seekers who had lost their farms (OK) | Okies | |
| 19720897 | grouping of makeshift shacks constructed by the homeless | shantytown | |
| 19720898 | 9 Black teenagers convicted of raping a white woman | Scottsboro Boys | |
| 19720899 | "first fired, last hired" during these difficult economic times | minorities | |
| 19720900 | How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) | Dale Carnegie | |
| 19720901 | Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Native Son | John Steinbeck | |
| 19720902 | German dirigible that exploded during landing in NJ | Hindenburg | |
| 19720903 | Groucho-Chico-Harpo | Marx Brothers | |
| 19720904 | Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 19720905 | fight between Francisco Franco (Nazi help) and the existing monarchy | Spanish-Civil War | |
| 19720906 | the greatest movie director of the 1920's-1940's | Frank Capra | |
| 19720907 | gov't program to raise farm prices to surplus purchasing | Agricultural Marketing Act | |
| 19720908 | increased import taxes to 75% on farm products = < international demand | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | |
| 19720909 | gave gov't loans to troubled banks, rails, and big business | Reconstruction Finance Corp. | |
| 19720910 | WWI vets who marched on DC demanded early payment of bonus $ | Bonus Army | |
| 19720911 | His heavy-handed tactics removed the Bonus Marchers | Gen. Douglas MacArthur | |
| 19720912 | elected official who is approaching the end of his term; powerless | lame duck | |
| 19720913 | winner of the 1932 presidential election | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| 19720914 | period between the election and the inauguration | interregnum | |
| 19720915 | Hoover's call for businesses to not lay off workers and people to help eachother | volunteerism | |
| 19720916 | nickname for shantytown; blamed Hoover for the crisis | Hoovervilles |
