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HW: Study for Test – complete Castle learning assignment

2. FDR’s Plan to help the country recover from economic depression
1. The New Deal

3. 2. What 2 presidents served during the Depression?
Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. What 2 presidents served during the Depression?

4. 3. Who was blamed for not doing enough for people during depression?
Herbert Hoover
3. Who was blamed for not doing enough for people during depression?

5. WWI veterans that wanted their bonus early
4. What was the bonus army?

6. 5. What was the immediate cause of the dust bowl?
Severe drought
5. What was the immediate cause of the dust bowl?

7. Shantytowns – shacks made of scrap material
6. Define Hoovervilles

8. A novel describing the plight of the farmers during the dustbowl
7. The Grapes of Wrath

9. 8. What conditions contributed to the dust bowl?
Overgrazing
8. What conditions contributed to the dust bowl?

10. 9. Who faced serious economic problems before the depression?
Farmers
9. Who faced serious economic problems before the depression?

11. 10. What is an effect of the Great Depression?
Many Americans lost jobs
10. What is an effect of the Great Depression?

12. 11. What happens during a economic depression?
Consumers purchase fewer goods
11. What happens during a economic depression?

13. 12. What was the purpose of the “Bank Holiday”?
To prevent the banks from failing.
12. What was the purpose of the “Bank Holiday”?

14. 13. What were fireside chats?
Roosevelt’s technique to inform Americans about his New Deal programs
13. What were fireside chats?

15. Roosevelt’s group of advisors
14. Identify Brain Trust

16. 15. What was the Wagner Act also known as?
National Labor Relations Act
15. What was the Wagner Act also known as?

17. 16. Identify “Packing the court”
Roosevelt’s plan to add more justices to the Supreme Court for increased support of programs
16. Identify “Packing the court”

18. 17. Identify public works programs
New Deal programs to put people to work
17. Identify public works programs

19. 18. Identify the Civilian Conservation corps
Young men were hired to work planting trees.
18. Identify the Civilian Conservation corps

20. 19. What was the role of the government during the New Deal?
Increase control over the economy
19. What was the role of the government during the New Deal?

21. 20. How did the New Deal attempt to reform the economy?
Programs such as Social Security, unemployment insurance and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
20. How did the New Deal attempt to reform the economy?

22. 21. Identify the Tennessee Valley Authority
A program to improve the economic life of a region.
21. Identify the Tennessee Valley Authority

23. 22. When was the Social Security legislation passed?
1935
22. When was the Social Security legislation passed?

24. 23. Identify the Agricultural Adjustment Act
Program to help farmers – reduce crop production
23. Identify the Agricultural Adjustment Act

25. 24. What was a lasting reform of the New Deal?
The Social Security System
24. What was a lasting reform of the New Deal?

26. 25. Why were movies popular during the depression?
People would escape their problems by going to the movies.
25. Why were movies popular during the depression?

27. 26. What is Social Security?
A pension plan for senior citizens
26. What is Social Security?