Final History Exam 10th grade 2nd semester
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- Causes of the Great Depression
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Margin buying, lack of middle class, income gap.
(Stock market crash was the barometer, Smoot-Hawly made it worse.) - Herbert Hoover
- 31st president durring great depression. Humanitarina in WWII. Didnt handle the depression well because he didnt believe in direct reliefe.
- Bonus Army
- WWII veterens who marched at D.C demanding an early pension. 1932.
- Black Tuesday
- Stock market crash. Margin buyings fault. 29 Oct 1929
- FDR (D)
- 32nd president. Handled depression well. New Deal, creating alphebet agencies. 4 terms.
- Keynesian approach
- Give reliefe directly to the people
- Dust Bowl
- Many dust storms because of bad farming and droughts. Caused the farmers to move to California.
- FDIC
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Kept banks from failing by guarenteeing the bank $30000
- SEC
- Securities and exchange commision. Regulated to stock market.
- CCC
- cicil conservation corps. Young men working on projects.
- TVA
- Tennassee Valley Authority. Generate power for Tennassee areas. Controll floods.
- SSA
- Social Security Act. Created retirement, disibility, survivor, widow, orphan, benefits.
- WPA
- Works Progress Administration. Created jobs for the unemployed, like Hoover Dam. Artistic works aswell.
- FLSA
- Fair Labor Standards Act. Set minimum wage, minor age, limit on hours a week.