Economic Trouble
Hardship and
Suffering
Herbert Hoover
FDR Politics of the 1930’s
The 1st New Deal
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Economic Hardship: 100
• Buying stocks without the capital to do so, having to borrow to purchase.
• Buying on Margin
Economic Trouble: 200
• DOUBLE JEOPARDYDOUBLE JEOPARDY
• The measure of the stock market’s health, a statistical compilation.
• Down Jones Industrial Average
Economic Trouble: 300
• 10-29-29.
• Black Tuesday
Economic Trouble: 400
• Any three financial causes of the Great Depression.
• Vary
Economic Growth: 500
• Provided farmers with price-supports on key crops such as wheat, corn, and cotton. This bill was vetoed by Hoover.
• McNary-Haugen Bill.
Hardship and Suffering: 100
• “little towns consisting of shacks”
• Shantytown
Hardship and Suffering: 200
• Plagued by terrible farming conditions, farmers often abandoned farms in the Great Plains because of…
• The Dust Bowl
Hardship and Suffering:300
• Men who wandered the country hitching rides on railroad cars and sleeping under bridges?
• Hoboes
Hardship and Suffering: 400
• Hoover was opposed to this concept—he favored “rugged individualism”
• Direct Relief
Hardship and Suffering: 500
• Took this picture?
• Dorothea Lange
Herbert Hoover: 100
• Hoover believed the depression would end with
• Volunteerism and individualism
Herbert Hoover: 200
Herbert Hoover: 300
• DAILY DOUBLE
• The Great Engineering achievement of the 1920’s, built in Nevada.
• Hoover Dam
Railroads: 400
• Cartoon analysis
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Herbert Hoover: 500
• Herbert Hoover’s most ambitious attempt to deal with the depression?
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)
FDR: 100
• Suffered from?
• Polio
FDR: 200
• His handling of this crisis after it was botched by Hoover and MacArthur signaled his presidential victory?
• Bonus Army
FDR:300
• Roosevelt used these to control public opinion and convey his ideas about the depression?
• Fireside Chats
FDR: 400
• Cartoon Analysis
Robber Barons and Giants: 500
• Certain men are destined and predispositioned for wealth and power.
• Social Darwinism
Political Corruption: 100
• Leader of the Tammany Hall Political Machine
• Boss Tweed
Political Corruption: 200
• Artist who launched a crusade against the Tammany Machine?
• Thomas Nast
Political Corruption: 300
• Talked about giving kids a ball field, and helping those who had been burned out by fire…a precinct captain in the Tammany Ring?
• George Washington Plunkitt
Political Corruption: 400
• Cartoon Analysis
Political Corruption: 500
• The building that best exemplifies the corruption and excess of the Machine governments?
• New York City Courthouse
Unions and Strikes: 100
• The most destructive of the late 19th century strikes. Disrupted travel and damaged the labor union movement due to its impact on regular people.
• Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Unions and Strikes: 200
• Occurred as a result of wages being slashed and the mandated rent for living in the company town staying steady.
• Pullman Strike
Unions and Strikes 300
• An unknown person tossed a bomb into a crowd killing several policeman.
• Haymarket Affair
Unions and Strikes: 400
• Andrew Carnegie’s brutal treatment of workers exposed at this devastating strike.
• Homestead Strike
Unions and Strikes 500
• The “assailants” tried
And executed for their role
In the ____________.
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