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The New Deal
Alphabet Agencies
Question: Told farmers not to grow certain plants so that reducing supplies made the prices go up.
Answer: Agricultural Adjustment Act
Question: This legislation provided stability to the economy and the failing banking system.
Answer: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Question: Tried to give electricity and other supplies to the poor families in rural areas.
Answer: Rural Electrification Administration
Question: New Deal program that helped build dams to control flooding and produce cheap electric power
Answer: Tennessee Vally Authority
Question: System of old-age benefits for workers, victims that have gotten hurt at work, aid for dependent mothers and children.
Answer: Social Security Act
Important people
Question: American statesman who was the 32nd President of the United States. He passed 14 new laws.
Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Question: Known as the "Kingfish". He was the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928-1932 and was a member of the U.S. senate.
Answer: Senator Huey Long
Question: American physician who was best known for his revolving old-age pension proposal during the Great Depression.
Answer: Dr. Francis Townsend
Question: Politician who served as the 26th Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937.
Answer: Governor Alfred Landon
Question: Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1930 to 1945.
Answer: Judge Owen Roberts
Vocabulary
Question: Unable to pay debts.
Answer: Bankrupt
Question: Group of African American leaders who served as unofficial advisers under FDR.
Answer: Black Cabinet
Question: A public holiday where all the banks are closed.
Answer: Bank Holiday
Question: The rights of citizens to social and political freedom.
Answer: Civil Rights
Question: Process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract.
Answer: Collective Bargaining
Events
Question: Veterans marched to Washington and demanded bonuses. Congress rejected, and Hoover lost all of his support.
Answer: The Bonus Army
Question: FDR passed 14 new laws, fireside chats, and a bank holiday.
Answer: The First Hundred Days
Question: Everyone sells there stocks; no buyers. - October 29
Answer: Black Tuesday
Question: Problems with the economy. Money loans weren't payed off. The stock market crashed and overproduction happened.
Answer: The Great Depression
Question: Workers went on strike and refused to work, use the machines and leave the factories.
Answer: Sit-down Strike
Section 1
Question: What was another name for the Stock Market when it crashed?
Answer: Black Tuesday
Question: What were the soup kitchens often supported by?
Answer: Churches and Charities
Question: What did FDR talk about in the Fireside Chat?
Answer: How people should put their money back into the banks.
Question: Was a general who help veterans from WW1using machinery such as machine guns, tear gas, and tanks.
Answer: Douglas McArthur
Question: When all the banks and business could not pay off there debts.
Answer: Bankrupt