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- * Part of the first New Deal, it was created to regulate the stock market and place strict limits on the kind of speculative practices that led to the Wall Street (stock market) crash in 1929.* Required full audits and financial disclosures by corporations to protect investors from fraud and insider trading.
- * Federally funded government corporation set up to help the faltering railroads, banks and insurance companies by loaning them money.* Created under Hoover, he felt loaning money to the big businesses would "trickle down" and help smaller businesses* Democrats said it would only help the rich
- * Unemployed WWI veterans marched to Washington DC during the Great Depression to demand immediate payment of the bonuses promised to them* They camped near the Capital, but Congress did not pass the bonus bill, 2 veterans were killed, and General MacArthur had their camp destroyed* Caused Americans to see Hoover as heartless and uncaring
- * one of the leading causes of the Great Depression. * After a boom in the 1920's, stock prices fell dramatically in October of 1929 (Black Thursday/Oct 24). On Friday a group of bankers bought a bunch of stock trying to prevent a selling frenzy, but it only worked for one day and then on Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929) the bottom fell out of the market.* everyone was trying to sell, but there were no buyers
- * Term applied to President Roosevelt's first three months in office. * After being sworn in as president, FDR called Congress into a hundred-day-long special session and during this time Congress passed every law that FDR requested, enacting more major legislation than any other Congress in history* This era saw the passage of bills aimed at repairing the banking system and restoring American's faith in the economy, starting government works projects to employ those out of work, offering subsidies for farmers, and devising a plan to aid in the recovery of the nation's industrial sector.
- * Part of FDR's acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in 1932* He promised RELIEF for people out of work; RECOVERY for business and the economy as a whole, and REFORM of American economic institutions* FDR's promise to help the "forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid"* FDR had a group of professors help him with this policy, they were known as the Brain Trust
- * Raised taxes on imports to the highest levels in history (31 to 49%)* Worsened the Depression* In retaliation, Europe set higher tariffs against the US which created a decline in international trade and slowing economy
- * Part of FDR's New Deal, this increased regulation of the banks and limited how banks could invest customers' money* Created federally insured bank deposits to prevent bank failures. The government guaranteed individual bank deposits (originally up to $2500 per person)
- * REPUBLICAN elected president in 1928 when Coolidge didn't want to run for a 2nd term (he had been secretary of Commerce under 3 presidents)* He said he would end poverty, but instead he was president when the prosperity of the 1920's ended and a great economic depression started (Great Depression)* A "lame-duck" president - he lost reelection in 1932 to FDR so he held office for 4 months after he lost but was powerless to do anything (resulted in 20th amendment known as lame-duck amendment shortening time between election and taking office)
- How did the US government encourage the settlement in the Great Plains?
- Describe the struggles faced by African-Americans in the South during Reconstruction.
- This university was created as a result of the Morrill Act.
- What was the Joad family escaping from? Where did they go? What were they called?
- What territory did Rudyard Kipling write White Man's Burden about?
- What year was the spanish american war fought?
- What disease is associated with the building of the Brooklyn Bridge that might have afflicted sandhogs
- who was the first female in the presidential cabinet?
- Who was President during the bonus army?
- What are the two specific locations in NYC that experienced a terrorist attack in the early 1900s?
- what year did the great war start?