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 ____________.