Great Depression

This bingo card has 43 words: Free!, Short term cause of the Great Depression - October 29,1929, Black Tuesday, value stocks fell, which caused panic & sell stocks, stocks bought on margin left many with no stock and owing money to investors, Hoover's response - His initial response urged caution, thought churches and charities should help and not the government, he instituted public work programs, Trickle down Economics - Government gives money to businesses, businesses hire more people people spend their money the money they spend goes back to the government., Bonus Army - WW1 veterans marched to Washington and demanded an early pension, Hoover used violence of soldiers to force them out., FDR'S response first 100 days - Bank Holiday, Fireside Chats, Eleanor Roosevelt talked to the people, Bank Holiday - closed for 4 days, only allowed ones that were financially stable to reopen, Fireside Chats - Spoke to Americans to reassure them, Eleanor Roosevelt - used her influence to speak out and help Americans with many social concerns, Supreme Court rules some programs unconstitutional - led to court packing attempts by FDR, New Deal goals - Relief, Recovery, Reform, Relief - immediate help during the depression, recovery - temporary steps to help improve economy, reform - permanent changes to ensure no depression in the future, New Deal Programs - SSS (Social Security Act), TVA(Tennessee Valley Authority),CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), Social Security Act of 1935 - Retirement for the elderly and disabled, Tennessee Valley Authority - New Deal program that built dams to control flooding and produce cheap electric power, Civilian Conservation Corps - New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects, Dust Bowl Causes - Wind, drought, over-grazing animals, over-use of land, Results of Dust Bowl - Migration of farmers to west (great plains), changes in farming technique. OKIES, Causes of Great Depression - over production, weakness in banking system, over use of credit, stocks purchased on margin, Stock market crash, Role of government - changes government takes on an active role in the economy and insuring the well-being of American citizens, October 29 1929 - Black Tuesday stock market crash, Overproduction - cause of depression, the 3 r's - Relief Recovery Reform, Great Depression - the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s, Francis Perkins, Secretary of Labor - Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor and first woman cabinet member in U.S. history., Dorethea Lange - Photographed migrant farm workers during the great depression., Huey Long - As senator in 1932 of Washington preached his "Share Our Wealth" programs. It was a 100% tax on all annual incomes over $1 million and appropriation of all fortunes in excess of $5 million. With this money Long proposed to give every, Father Coughlin - A Catholic priest from Michigan who was critical of FDR on his radio show. His radio show morphed into being severely against Jews during WWII and he was eventually kicked off the air, however before his fascist (?) rants, he wa, Mexican Repatriation Act - Forced thousands of legal and illegal Mexican immigrants out of the country during the 1930's, Okies - Displaced farm families from the Oklahoma dust bowl who migrated to California during the 1930s in search of jobs., Rugged Individualism - Herbert Hoover's belief that people must be self-reliant and not depend upon the federal government for assistance., Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) - a law enacted in 1933 to raise crop prices by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of their land unplanted, thus lowering production, Court Packing Scheme (1937) - President Franklin D. Roosevelt's failed 1937 attempt to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices from nine to fifteen in order to save his Second New Deal programs from constitutional challenges., buying on margin - paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest, Hoovervilles (Shantytowns) - A very poor area where small shacks were built from scrap materials, soup kitchen - place where food is provided to the needy at little or no charge, Dust Bowl, 1935 - poor farming practices, drought, and high winds blew away millions of tons of dried topsoil ruining the crops of the Great Plains., Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act - Law that raised taxes on imports and worsened the Depression, drought - a long period without rain, 21st Amendment (1933) - Repeal of prohibition (18th Amendment) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - the government agency that insures customer deposits if a bank fails.

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