1. Review for Test Roaring Twenties and Great Depression
Multiple Choice only- NO ESSAY
DO CASTLELEARNING!!!!

2. Tennessee Valley Authority
Reform
Built dams, hydroelectric plants, reforestation of the Tennessee River Valley.
Preserve natural resources.
Government accused of being a monopoly

3. Social Security Administration
Reform
Pension for retired workers age 62 or 65
Unemployment and death benefits.
Today added medicare and medicaid.
In danger of going bankrupt today.

4. Federal Housing Administration
Relief
Government made loans to people in danger of losing their homes (facing foreclosure).
Saved 10,000 homes.

5. FDIC
Reform
Insures bank deposits up to 5,000 (originally) – 100,000 (today).

6. Securities and Exchange Commission
Reform
Oversees the stock market
Ethical practices
Prevent insider trading

7. National Labor Relations Board
Wagner Act
Allowed labor unions to organize.
Hold elections for union reps.
Collective bargaining
File grievances.
Reform

8. # ’s American Society
Drastic social changes- women, automobile, buying on credit.
Traditional v. modern thinking

9. #3- Shenck v. U.S.
Distributed pamphlets during WWI to avoid the draft.
Argued freedom of speech.
Lost because of wartime.
Created a “clear and present danger”

10. #4- Problems in agriculture
Borrowed heavily from banks to buy large farms and machinery.
Overproduced which decreased prices.
Couldn’t repay loans
Dust bowl

11. #5- Republicans
Hoover was Republican
Believed in laissez faire

12. #6- New Deal Relief, Recovery and Reform
Roosevelt believed government should be actively involved.
Some argued government had too much control and was too involved.

13. #7- Dust Bowl Severe drought in the midwest.
Described in Grapes of Wrath.
Roosevelt proposed- Agricultural Adjustment Act- subsidies and buy surpluses.

14. #8- Lasting Impact of New Deal
Social Security
FDIC
Securities and Exchange Commission
Wagner Act

15. #9- Scopes Trial
John Scopes, a high school biology teacher was teaching evolution (evolution v. creationism).
Arrested and convicted.
Traditional v. modern values.

16. #10- Sacco and Vanzetti
Two Italian immigrants executed without sufficient evidence.
Anti-Immigrant attitudes.

17. #11- Hoover and Roosevelt
Hoover- laissez faire- hands off and the economy will fix itself.
Roosevelt- Prime the pump- put money into the nations economy to get it started.
Government should be actively involved.