Items reviewed on Thursday for the Ch. 22-23 Test:
Depression/Hoover
- know the overall causes of the Depression
- farming debt increased in the 1920s (overproduction)
- buying on margin
- Hoover's initial response: asked business leaders?
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- Bonus Army March
- Hoover vs. FDR in 1932
- direct relief
New Deal
- first action by FDR: Emergency Banking Relief Act - bank holiday
- Federal Securities Act - regulate stock market
- Fireside Chats
- WPA
- 1st women to cabinet
- AAA - raise prices to fix overproduction problem
- John Steinbeck
- Supreme Court issues - NIRA/AAA unconstitutional; court re-organization
bill failed
- Social Security ***
- FERA
- Huey Long (Share Our Wealth) and criticisms of socialists
- National Debt
- Results of the New Deal
- Agencies/Laws/Terms to know (2 matching sections + some related
multiple choice) - these abbreviations will be spelled out on the test:
- Wagner Act
- FSA
- Federal Art Project
- Federal Writers Project
- CCC
- TVA
- FDIC
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- HOLC
- WPA
- SEC
- FERA
- NLRB
- defecit
- parity