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12 Cards in this Set
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A reason the stock market collapsed was?
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Investors bought stocks on margin
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what is a Hooverville
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nickname for the shacks that the homeless lived in during the Great Depression
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What is a public works project?
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A program which the government pays people to build or construct things for public use---examples schools and roads
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What is court packing?
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FDR's plan to add six more judges to the Supreme Court so that his New Deal programs could continue
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What is the New Deal?
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The laws that Roosevelt passed that helped the unemployed, planned for recovery and made reforms to prevent another Depression
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What three New Deal Programs still exist today?
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FDIC--Federal deposit insurance corporation SEC-securities and exchange commission SSA-Social Security Administration
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What was a man made cause of the Dust Bowl?
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Farmers overusing their land
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What was Black Tuesday?
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The day the stock market crashed
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What was the Bonus Army
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World War I veterans who went to Washington looking for their war bonus check early
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What was the immediate cause of the Great Depression?
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Collpase of the stock market
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Where was the Dust Bowl located?
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Great Plains of the United States
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Why were some people critical of the New Deal?
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It interfered in private life and business too much
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