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5. Economic Conditions Causes of the Great Depression FDR and the New Deal Alphabet Soup Miscellaneous 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Hoover and the Early Great Depression

6. Many of these financial institutions failed in the 1930s

7. Banks

8. Investment arena that collapsed in October 1929

9. Stock Market

10. Global activity that dropped by 65% in the 1930s

11. World (International) Trade

12. Work stoppage by laborers in many areas of the economy

13. General Strike

14. U.S. president who dealt with the Great Depression

15. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

16. This was the nickname for October 29, 1929 – day of the biggest losses on the stock market in history.

17. Black Tuesday

18. The rise in consumerism, coupled with the ability to do this, contributed to tremendous debt during the Depression.

19. Buying on Credit

20. This was the word used to describe the trend of people buying too many risky stocks

21. Speculation

22. You could buy stocks by paying only a minimum percentage of what they were actually worth, the act of which was called this

23. Buying on Margin

24. The German economy suffered from this, which meant that even a lot of money was worth very little

25. Hyperinflation

26. Of business, government, and the courts, Hoover thought that giving this more freedom was the key to ending the Depression.

27. Business

28. This was the nickname for the period from 1930 to 1936 when part of the U.S. was covered in windswept dirt.

29. The Dust Bowl

30. One of the major reasons that farmers were hit the hardest during the Great Depression was because they did this with their crops

31. Overproduced

32. The Bonus Army camped out in Washington in 1932 to ask for these

33. Early pensions for their WWI service

34. Hoover passed this tariff to encourage Americans to buy domestic goods

35. Hawley-Smoot Tariff

36. Period of FDR’s presidency where legislation was rapidly and continuously passed to deal with the economic issues

37. First Hundred Days

38. This one of the ‘3 Rs’ provided jobs for the unemployed during the Depression

39. Relief

40. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), an action of recovery, paid farmers to do this.

41. Stop producing so many crops

42. Reform, the last of the ‘3 Rs’, was intended to do this

43. Install programs to prevent the Depression from happening again

44. The purpose of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Was to do this.

45. Restore people’s faith in the banks by having the government back their savings

46. TVA

47. Tennessee Valley Authority Built and operated dams to provide hydroelectric power Reform

48. CCC

49. Civilian Conservation Corps Gave men jobs in public works projects such as national forests Relief

50. NRA

51. National Recovery Administration Set business codes and quotas to restore competition Recovery

52. SEC

53. Securities and Exchange Commission Protection of investors in the stock market Reform

54. SSA

55. Social Security Administration Oversight of new Social Security Program Reform

56. What happened to the unemployment rate during the Great Depression? What happened peoples wages?

57. The unemployment rate quadrupled, wages were cut in half.

58. What happened to 1,000 families per day during the Depression?

59. Beginning in 1933 1,000 families lost their homes every day.

60. Using the medium of radio, Roosevelt gave these to explain to the average American what changes were being made/necessary

61. Fireside Chats

62. Roosevelt responded to the bank crisis by doing this (what and why)

63. Declare a 4-day holiday and launch investigations of the nation's banks

64. Hoover's reaction to the Great Depression was limited to this, which bailed out the banks, railroads, and insurance companies

65. What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

66. Make your wager

67. This is the term given to the New Deal criticism of “make-work projects”

68. Boondoggling