Great Depression test US history Questions and Answers Already Passed

Great Depression test US history Questions and Answers Already Passed What percent of the country was on welfare - Answers 25% Hoover against this... - Answers - stir up class hatred -destroy individual initiative - constitution did not permit it -would make people make panicky - relief a matter of state and local responsibility Who received the best education in the world by going from town to town trying to find work - Answers Hoboes RFC - Answers Reconstruction Finance Corporation: loaned $ to banks and banks and big business What did Republicans imply about FDR's ideas - Answers He had socialist/ communist tendencies, went against "American" ideals, FDR is a Democrat Bonus Army - Answers 1932: 20,000 jobless WW1 vets go to Washington DC to ask for payment of bonus due to them in 1945, they were denied, Hoover sent in the army to remove them Who carried out the plan to remove WW1 vets from Washington DC - Answers General McArthur FDR was the governor of what state - Answers New York Inaugural Address (FDR) - Answers "Nothing to fear, but fear itself" How much money did FDR spend in his first 100 days in office - Answers $500,000,000 in government programs What were fireside chats and who delivered them - Answers FDR, weekly radio addresses to the American people, gave people a sense of hope and confidence critisisms of socialism - Answers Didn't help minorities (African Americans), wealthy hurt, main critics were Coughlin, Townsend, and Huey long Coughlin - Answers Catholic radio priest Huey Long - Answers Governor of Louisiana, "every family should live like a king" Direct relief (dole) - Answers Relief, reform, recovery Indirect Relief - Answers Work for $, alphabet agencies Alphabet Angencies - Answers Tried to create jobs from people's skills, jobs supplied by the federal government CWA - Answers Civil Works Administration, 1933, director: Harry Hopkins, created jobs in the building industry such as building roads, airports, schools CCC - Answers Civilian Conservation Corps, basic wage was $30 a month, $22 a month was sent back home to their families National Youth Administration - Answers Part-time work was given to high school and college students, helped kids stay in school, keep an educated nation New Deal= - Answers Huge bureaucracy, Recovery FCA - Answers Farm Credit Administration, refinanced loans at lower rate, gave short term loans to help with planting/ harvesting AAA - Answers Agricultural Adjustment Act, brought prices back to an earlier more prosperous time, paid farmers who reduced production with crops and animals, animals were killed bc many were starving Dust Bowl - Answers Severe drought during Which mid West states did the dust bowl effect the most - Answers Kansa, Colorado, N.Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, but effected states all the way up to Canada What state did many people move to during the dust bowl - Answers California, even though they were not welcomed or wanted "Bank Holiday" - Answers Closed banks for five days, a loud government inspectors to see which banks were stable, tried to restore confidence in banks parentheses 1933 parentheses, most people said no "bank you" "Pump priming" - Answers (Keynesian Economics) - poured money into the economy to get the economy going John Keynes - Answers Was a British economist who believed that large deficit spending was OK for government to get the economy going PWA - Answers Public Works Administration, leader: Harold Ickles Home Owners Loan Corporation - Answers Lent 300 million dollars over 3 years to allow home owners to refinance