Term review for unit test on Great Depression and New Deal
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| 620006863 | Black Thursday | October 24, 1929; on this day J.P. Morgan's quick buying prevented a stock market crash | |
| 620006864 | Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929; Stock Market Crash | |
| 620006865 | "Okies" | name given to migrants fleeing the Dust Bowl | |
| 620006866 | Dorothea Lange | WPA photographer most known for her photographs of migrant workers | |
| 620006867 | 21st Amendment | repealed prohibition | |
| 620006868 | Bonus Army | group of WWI veterans who marched to Washington DC in 1932 to demand early pensions | |
| 620006869 | Election of 1932 | Hoover vs. FDR; two competing ideologies - laissez faire vs. government intervention | |
| 620006870 | New Deal | the name given to FDR's massive plan for relief, recovery, and reform | |
| 620006871 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | popular American president most remembered for the New Deal | |
| 620006872 | Eleanor Roosevelt | she was FDR's eyes and ears and a strong advocate for the New Deal | |
| 620006873 | Hundred Days | Roosevelt's proposals for new economic programs were quickly approved by Congress during this period | |
| 620006874 | 3 R's of the New Deal | Relief, Recovery, and Reform | |
| 620006875 | Relief | New Deal programs that provided direct and indirect aid to individuals and families | |
| 620006876 | Recovery | New Deal programs designed to speed economic recovery | |
| 620006877 | Reform | measures designed to regulate operation of banks and the stock market to prevent another crash | |
| 620006878 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, | government program that insures bank deposits in case of a bank failure | |
| 620006879 | Civilian Conservation Corps, | job creation program that employed young men in environmental projects | |
| 620006880 | National Recovery Administration, | New Deal program that attempted to set prices and wages in key industries; declared unconstitutional | |
| 620006881 | Agricultural Adjustment Act, | raised farm prices ad controlled production | |
| 620006882 | Tennessee Valley Authority, | aimed to control flooding and promote conservation while generating electricity for rural areas in the south | |
| 620006883 | Second New Deal | in 1925 president roosevelt launched a new set of programs and reforms which were called this. | |
| 620006884 | Works Progress Administration, | program of Second New Deal that employed artists and construction workers | |
| 620006885 | National Labor Relations Act | aka Wagner Act, law recognizing rights of unions to organize | |
| 620006886 | Social Security System | program created during Second New Deal; provides old-age and disability pensions & unemployment insurance | |
| 620006887 | American Liberty League | organization that opposed the New Deal on the grounds that it limited American freedoms | |
| 620006888 | court packing | attempt by FDR to increase the size of the Supreme Court so judges favorable to his policies would be appointed | |
| 620006889 | Huey Long | Governor and senator from Louisana who promoted a "Share Our Wealth" program | |
| 620006890 | National Industrial Recovery Act, | called by Roosevelt "the most important and far-reaching piece of legislation ever passed in the United States." | |
| 620006891 | Public Works Administration | created large scale public construction projects. | |
| 620006892 | Civil Works Administration | created many manual labor jobs to supply short term relief | |
| 620006893 | Federal Housing Administration, | provided small loans for home construction | |
| 620006894 | National Youth Administration | provided jobs to young people | |
| 620006895 | Securities and Exchange Commission | regulated the sale of stocks and bonds | |
| 620006896 | dust bowl | the area that included wester kansas and oklahoma, northern texas, and eastern colorado and new mexico that suffered from the black blizzards | |
| 620006897 | stock exchange | an organized system for buying and selling shares in corporations | |
| 620006898 | land | to purchase to enlarge indian reservation | |
| 620006899 | great depression | a severe economic crisis that started in the late 1920's . farm income dropped throughout the 1920's. many small banks suffered when farmers defaulted on their loans. some large banks collapsed after suffering huge losses from the stock market crash . | |
| 620006900 | soap operas | were given this name because they were sponsored by laundry detergents | |
| 620006901 | indina reorganization act of 1934 | restored traditional tribal government and provided money for land purchases to enlarge some reservations | |
| 620006902 | polio | paralyzed president Roosevelt | |
| 620006903 | Hoover | was president during the Great Depression | |
| 620006904 | Hoovervilles | Many families lived in shelters built from old boxes and formed these communities | |
| 620006905 | Brain Trust | group of progressive lawyers, economists and social workers who advised Franklin D. Roosevelt |
