history terms 22&23
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- crash of 1929
- The 1929 foundation of the seemingly prospewrous economy was so unstable that the stock market crash in October led to a severe depression whose effects spread worldwide.
- FDR economic plan
- wanted bussiness adn gov to interact together
- 1st 100 days in office
- banks, FERA, CWA, CCC (men and women), provided campsites for teh vetrans, NIRA, federal security act. Helped people keep their homes.
- Hoover economic plan
- Bussiness and gov. stay sepreated.....voulantarily set prices and wages.
- Pack Supreme Court
- FDR tires to get the supreme court up to 15 ppl instead of 9 to get his way waded.
- new deal
- proposals and programs addopted by FDR in response to teh great depression; included social and economic programs and changes in government regualation.
- Dust bowl
- Huge dust storm that destroyed large areas of farmers land causing a great migration to the west (California area)
- failures of the new deal
- FDR didnt go far enough, women were at a diadvantage and still didnt have teh same rigths as men, and teh segregation of teh blacks and minorities
- N.I.R.A
- The National Industrial Recovery Act- sought to bolster those prices and thus help business and indiviuals.
- 21st ammendment
- constitutional ammendment of 1933 repealing the 18th ammendment, thus ending prohibition
- 2nd New Deal
- helping the commonm person - social welfare. Welfare designed as a crutch.
- effects of the crash
- most ppl were not immediatly affected by the 1929 stock market crash, but by the early 1930s wage cuts and growing unemployment brougth widespread suffering.
- causes of the crash
- an unstable blance of wealth, buying on credit, ttomany goods too little demand...and the "get rich quick" attitude.
- treatment of minorities
- segregation was reinforced, many were not hired for new jobs.
- economy of the 1920's
- Optimism and faith in bussiness continued throughout the 1920's. But while many were buying goods on credit and investing in teh bombing stock market, millions more had no share in the country's prosperity.
- election of 1932
- FDR and Hoover. FDR won by a landslide because of new hopes. Ppl blamed Hoover for teh depression.