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Question 0

Depression hit Arkansas

Answer 0

• 192 banks failed
• nearly one half of all businesses closed
• 245,000 Arkansans lost their jobs
• local and country governments were without funds
• States debt began to grow

Question 1

Great depression

Answer 1

• serious and worldwide economic decline of the 1930s
• production of goods and service drastically
• unemployment rate jumped to 25%
• over 100,000 businesses and banks declare bankruptcy

Question 2

Hattie Caraway

Answer 2

• Husband, Thad Caraway died while senator for Arkansas
• hattie was named to fill the Senate seat in the November 1931
• In 1932 hattie complained to full Senate seat for full-term opposing six men
• she won by a large margin

Question 3

Election of 1932

Answer 3

-pres. Herbert hoorer did nothing to help Americans and it cost him reelection
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
•Elected president in 1932
•Willing to try new federal programs to help Americans
• hundred days

Question 4

Hundred days

Answer 4

Actions taken by FDR during his first days in office to alleviate the effects of the depression

Question 5

The new deal

Answer 5

FDR's plan to bring the US out of depression
-relief for the needy
-recovery for businesses
-reform for the economic system
Bank holiday
Peficit spending

Question 6

Bank holiday

Answer 6

Close all banks in the US; only allowed to reopen when proved financially strong

Question 7

Preficit spending

Answer 7

Using borrow money to fund government programs

Question 8

New deal programs

Answer 8

FDIC
FARA
SOCIAL SECURITY
AAA

Question 9

FDIC

Answer 9

Federal deposit insurance Corp.

Formed to back savings account

Question 10

FERA

Answer 10

Federal emergency relief administration

9 million to AR; provided food, shelter, and money for the unemployed

Question 11

FERA ended because of

Answer 11

WPA

Question 12

Social Security

Answer 12

Collected taxes to pay pensions for retired, disabled and unemployed

Question 13

AAA

Answer 13

Agricultural adjustment act

Paid farmers not to grow crops, as quantity decreased prices stabilized

Question 14

Southern tenant farmers union

Answer 14

• aaa
• Payments went to landowners not tenants, who farmed the land. Landowners did not share money. Union was formed by black and white sharecroppers.

Question 15

Liberal

Answer 15

One supportive of government programs

Question 16

Conservative

Answer 16

One opposed to government programs

Question 17

Public works programs

Answer 17

Government funded construction program

Question 18

Laissez faire

Answer 18

Opposed to government regulation, hands off policy

Question 19

Dyess colony

Answer 19

• Roosevelt created Farm security administration (FSA)-aimed at moving displaced farmers on to new lands
• used Arkansas program as model- W.R Dyess, states FERA chief in plantation owner, used FERA funds to create an ideal farm community for Arkansas’s relief clients
• divided 16000 acres into 500 Farmsteads for 3000 white Arkansans
• designed shape of Wagonwheel
• communal-all profits shared