Download Study Guide: The Great Depression and The New Deal Deflation

Study Guide: The Great Depression and The New Deal
Deflation
inflation
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
depression
State of the economy from 1929 to 1933 (economic indicators)
money stock/supply
bank panics
bank failures
President Roosevelt’s plans to address the economic problems of the Great Depression
Impact of government spending during President Roosevelt’s administration
New Deal Programs and their purpose/goal
Functions of the Federal Reserve
Monetary policy
What economists have come to understand by studying the Depression?
unemployment rate (definition and rate during peak of Depression)
Real Gross Domestic Product
Black Tuesday
Federal Reserve System
Role of the radio
National debt
farmers’ debts
Causes and effects of the Dust Bowl
Alfred E. Smith
Hoovervilles
How did Herbert Hoover deal with/attempt to help the economy during the Depression?
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
The Bonus Army
Price supports
soup kitchens and bread lines
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Reasons that U.S. industry couldn’t sell all the goods it produced in 1920s?
First major action Roosevelt took as president?
Works Progress Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Act
“fireside chats”
Federal Securities Act
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
Civilian Conservation Corps
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Emergency Banking Relief Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Social Security Act
Wagner Act
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDR’s First Inaugural Address
Essay: The essay will relate to the movie, “The Grapes of Wrath,” that we watched in class.