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History of the Americas
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- Alphabet agencies provided government loans to banks and railroads for reconstruction
- True or False: Hoovers treatment of the Bonus Army made him a little more popular.
- African American who won four gold medals in the track events at the Olympics
- What informal talks did FDR broadcast over the radio?
- first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic
- True or False: Malnutrition and homelessness were serious problems in peoples lives
- cardboard shacks sheltering homeless people in parks and vacant lots of American cities were
- greats plain were called what when in a serious drought
- the three r's that the Goal of Rosevelts New Deal involved
- True or False: The US Supreme Court outlawed the sit down strike
- True or False: Hoover received most of the blame for the depression
- what pushed tariffs on foreign industrial and agricultural products to their highest level in the nation's history.
- hoovers most significant measure; was authorized to lend $2 billion to struggling banks, railroads, life insurance companies, and other large businesses.
- a large group of unemployed veterans (Bonus Expeditionary Force) that made their way to Washington D.C. to ask for an early payment of that bonus
- What name was given to the group of advisors to help formulate plans to overcome the depression?
- True or False: FDR faced opposition to the new deal
- the republican candidate who raced against Roseelt in the 1936 election
- this law revived many taxes from World War 1 and imposed a sales tax on gasoline, tires, cars, electricity, and other items. it taxed stock transfers and phone, telegraph, and radio messages
- government-financed construction of public facilities
- True or False: New Deal programs brought quick recovery from the depression