APUSH Period 7: Chapter 23 - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
32nd president, saved U.S. during Great Depression, enacted dozens of new financial aid organizations	Franklin D. Roosevelt	86%
FDRs use of the radio to connect with America, set up to give ideas of change	Fireside Chats	71%
31st president, increased severity of Great Depression by his adherence to the gold standard, caused billions to be lost	Herbert Hoover	71%
FDRs wife, worked to expand female positions in politics, unions, education	Eleanor Roosevelt	64%
15,000 unemployed WW1 veterans hitchhike to Washington, demand payment of pension awards	Bonus Army	57%
Old age pensions for workers, system for compensation of unemployed workers, payments to widowed mothers and disabled	Social Security Act	57%
Severe drought causes wind to blow tons of unrooted dirt across the Great Plains, mass migration out of central U.S. due to unlivable conditions	Dust Bowl	43%
250k employed for reforestation and conservation work, bolstered national infrastructure	Civilian Conservation Corps	29%
Created Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, prohibits bank from making risky investments with people's money	Glass-Steagall Act	21%
Political threat to FDR, Louisiana Senator, popular through his laws which greatly benefited the common person	Huey Long	21%
Congress enacts 15 major bills focused on 4 problems, banking failure, agricultural overproduction, the business slump, soaring unemployment	Hundred Days	21%
"Indian New Deal", reversed 1887 Dawes Act, promoted Indian self-goverence	Indian Reorganization Act	21%
1930, triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries, hindering global trade + greater economic contraction	Smoot-Hawley Tariff	21%
Direct government regulation of a farm economy, gave cash to those who cut production of the 7 major commodities	Agricultural Adjustment Act	14%
Modernized the Southern States, integrated flood control, reforestation, and electricity	Tennessee Valley Authority	14%
Upheld rights of workers to join unions	Wagner Act	14%
First woman named to a cabinet post, Secretary of Labor, opened opportunities for women	Frances Perkins	7%
Founded Bethune-Cookman college, president of National Association for Colored Women, pushed for New Deal Acts to support African-Americans	Mary McLeod Bethune	7%
Attacked declining production, set up self-governing associations in 600 industries, regulated prices	National Recovery Administration	7%
Regulated stock market, determined how stocks and bonds were sold to the public	Securities and Exchange Commission	7%
Held individual liberty to be the foundation of a democratic society	Classical Liberalism	0%
Permanently changed mortgage system, set foundation for home ownership expansion post WW2	Federal Housing Administration	0%
Commissioner of BIA, pushed for Indian Reorganization Act	John Collier	0%
Created by ______, British economist, argued government could and should intervene in the economy	Keynesian Economics	0%
Construction program, gave the unemployed jobs by repairing bridges, highways, and buildings	Public Works Administration	0%
Roosevelt believes Great Depression is over, cuts relief, unemployment spikes again	Roosevelt Recession	0%
1/10 of farms had electricity, promotes loans to farmers to install power lines	Rural Electrification Administration	0%
This plan supported old-age pensions, elderly retirement who would receive 200 dollars a month	Townsend Plan	0%
Industrial democracies that adopted government-guarenteed social welfare programs	Welfare State	0%
Employed 8.5 million between 1935-1943, repaired/constructed roads, bridges, buildings, parks, airports	Work Progress Administration	0%

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