Shared Flashcard Set

Details

ch. 30-33
TCI unit 2 test: the great depression
20
History
10th Grade
02/25/2014

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Black Tuesday
Definition
People sold their stocks, stock prices plunged
Term
Stock market crash
Definition
No money left in stocks
Term
Buying on margin
Definition
Brokers lent out money, everybody was buying on credit
Term
Overproduction
Definition
More products produced than people could buy
Term
Undercomsumption
Definition
People were not buying as much as the economy was producing
Term
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Definition
Raised tariffs on imports, was meant to help Americans but harmed them because europeans made a "trade war" out of it and raised there taxes too
Term
Bonus Army
Definition
Group of veterans who wanted their promised bonus money from being in ww1
Term
Walter waters
Definition
Led the protests in d.c. to persuade congress to accelerate payment of bonuses
Term
Hooverville
Definition
Shantytowns that homeless americans in many cities built out of cardboard
Term
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Definition
Issued government loans to banks, railroads, and other big businesses
Term
New Deal
Definition
Roosevelts plan to do whatever it took to get the us out of this crisis
Term
First Hundred Days
Definition
Government dispensed record amount of bills of relief.
Term
CCC
Definition
Put the needy to work
Term
Right-Wing
Definition
Conservative
Term
Left-wing
Definition
Radical
Term
Okies to cali
Definition
Promised farming
Term
Great Flood of 1936
Definition
National flood control program
Term
National Industrial Recovery Act
Definition
Increase production while boosting wages and prices. Targeted bussiness, labor unions, and the unemployed
Term
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Definition
Aided farmers by reducing crop production which raised crop prices
Term
Wagner Act
Definition
Bill of rights for organized labor
Supporting users have an ad free experience!