The Great Depression Review Guide

Front 1

Civilian Conservation Corps

Back 1

Federal work for the youth, basically young people between 18 and 25 were kept of the street and sent to build things. They had to send half of their paycheck back to their family so they wouldn’t trash their money.

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Social Security Act

Back 2

The elderly were the hardest hit during the great depression. They wouldn’t be hired, lost almost or all of their life savings and retirement money, required people to take money out of their paycheck for retirement because no one thinks about these things when they are young.

Front 3

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Back 3

Farmers were producing too much food, overproduction subsidy, the government paid farmers no to grow certain crops. The prices on food raised and the farmers all got more money.

Front 4

Securities and Exchange Commission

Back 4

The government’s regulation of buying and selling stocks. This stopped the giving of tips and hints that gave people a humongous advantage.

Front 5

Works Progress Administration

Back 5

Put to work the artists and musicians. Paid to paint murals on the walls, make federal movies, historians put to work because they were laid off of colleges because they were told they couldn’t do anything, recorded the dying history.

Front 6

National Recovery Act

Back 6

Told the businesses to cooperate by setting steady prices so they would all get more money and to help pay for a minimum wage for workers, and to use the blue eagle symbol to agree to cooperate and get buyers to buy.

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Public Works Administration

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Employed skilled workers, put plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc. to work to send them to build stuff for federal pay.

Front 8

Tennessee Valley Authority

Back 8

Tennessee living in the past, no indoor toilets, electricity, or anything. FDR wanted to bring 20th century to Tennessee, built dams for government pay, and then let the government run it.

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Back 9

Insured bank accounts that if the bank went bankrupt, they wouldn’t lose their money, the government would pay back if below $100,000.

Front 10

Wagner Act

Back 10

protected workers from unfair management practices such as being fired for being in a union.

Front 11

Bonus Army

Back 11

the vets of WWI that marched into DC for their bonus money from the war early, fought off with tear gas and tanks.

Front 12

Fireside Chat

Back 12

FDR’s speeches over the radio that he would give from the comfort of his fire in the White House.

Front 13

Hoovervilles

Back 13

areas that houses were built out of scraps of metal and cardboard, blamed the depression on Hoover.

Front 14

Brain Trust

Back 14

group of people that were skilled in business that FDR confronted for advice.

Front 15

New Deal

Back 15

The promise FDR gave for campaign to get out of the great depression.

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Hundred Days

Back 16

when FDR was passing numbers of bills through congress over the period, part of the new deal that was promised.

Front 17

Sitdown Strikes

Back 17

Instead of workers attacking up and getting violent, they simply sat down and turned off all the machinery and refused to budge.

Front 18

Bank holiday

Back 18

Just like it sounds, when FDR closed all the banks.