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Lexi Gamache US History
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Question: Herbert Hoover on the political spectrum
Answer: Conservative/Republican
Question: Eleanor Roosevelt
Answer: First lady, active and involved
Question: Joseph Stalin
Answer: He said Capitalism was dead, noting that 100,000 Americans left for communist Soviet Union
Question: Huey Long
Answer: Said "Share the wealth" and was FDR opponent
Question: 100 days
Answer: Many programs through Congress
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Question: Social security
Answer: FDR gave benefits to retired etc workers
Question: Run on a bank
Answer: Using other peoples money
Question: Share the wealth
Answer: Taking $$ from everyone and spreading it out equally. EVERYONE GETS $$$$$$$$
Question: Roosevelt's program of relief, recovery, and reform
Answer: New Deal
Question: Brain trust
Answer: FDR's close advisors that helped create the New Deal
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Question: Bank holiday
Answer: Evaluate bank
Question: Cause of Recession 1937
Answer: Caused by increased borrowing by Federal Government
Question: National Recovery Administration
Answer: To help businesses, increase prices, failed to protect domestic workers
Question: Republican criticism of New Deal?
Answer: Spending too much, going too far with trying to reform economy
Question: FDR's position on labor unions
Answer: He was for them
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Question: Public works
Answer: It's a program for government to run projects
Question: Capitalism
Answer: Economic and political system in which a country's trade are controlled by private owners for profit
Question: National debt
Answer: How much the federal government owes
Question: National industrial recovery act
Answer: Let the president regulate industry to try and make the economy better
Question: Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Answer: Raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods
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Question: Increased federal borrowing
Answer: Federal government borrowed more money $$$$$$$
Question: Court packing
Answer: Move by FDR to increase the size of the supreme court
Question: Desperate WW1 veterans who demanded payment were called the
Answer: Bonus army
Question: What was the Hoover blanket?
Answer: Newspaper
Question: 25,000 square miles of the worst drought in US History?
Answer: Dust bowl