People and Positions
Politics
Great Depression
New Deal Programs
Potpourri
100
Eleanor Roosevelt changed this previously ceremonial role into a more active one during her husband's presidency, as she advocated for women's rights, labor rights, and travelled across the country to see the results of New Deal projects.
What is the First Lady?
100
President Roosevelt was a member of this political party.
What is the Democratic Party?
100
These shanty-towns were named after a politician many Americans blamed for the Great Depression.
What were Hoovervilles?
100
This program created a pension system for retirees with mandatory contributions from employers and employees alike.
What is the SSA (Social Security)?
100
This disease caused President Roosevelt to spend much of his life in a wheelchair, although he did his best to hide this from the public.
What is polio?
200
This General, under orders from President Hoover, dispersed the "Bonus Army" in 1932.
Who was General Douglas MacArthur?
200
This economic concept suggests that by cutting taxes on the wealthy and businesses, more jobs will be created and wages will increase.
What is trickle-down economics?
200
Farmers who worked on land owned by somebody else were also known as this.
Who are tenant farmers?
200
This program hired two million young men to dig ditches, build trails, fight forest fires, and replant forests.
What was the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps).
200
Roosevelt's radio addresses to the American public were known as this.
What are fireside chats?
300
Photographers such as this woman took photos such as this one - titled "Migrant Mother"
Who is Dorothea Lange?
300
This act protected the rights of American workers to collectively bargain and join unions.
What is the Wagner Act?
300
Returning immigrants to their home country, as suggested by some politicians to protect American jobs for Americans, was known as
What is repatriation?
300
This agency built dams to control floods and generate electric power for multiple states in the South - primarily the one the agency was named after.
What was the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority).
300
This famous economist argued that the government spending money, even when in debt, was going to end the Great Depression.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
400
The Grapes of Wrath, written by this author, follows the Joad family's migration due to the Dust Bowl and Great Depression.
Who is John Steinbeck?
400
This amendment prohibits Presidents from being elected more than twice.
What is the 22nd amendment?
400
This controversial piece of legislation was designed to protect American industry, but ended up worsening the Great Depression by raising the prices of imported goods.
What was the Smoot-Hawley or Hawley-Smoot tariff?
400
The "Three Rs" for the New Deal programs were...
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
400
The concept that banning something will actually make it more popular is better known as this.
What is the Streisand effect?
500
This radio priest vehemently opposed the New Deal - preferring to call it a "Raw Deal".
Who was Father Charles Coughlin?
500
Roosevelt's closest, informal advisors were also known as the
What is the Brain Trust?
500
Groups such as labor unions, African Americans, Southerners, and young people came together in this voting bloc to support Roosevelt's as early as 1932 - caused by the Great Depression
What was the New Deal Coalition?
500
Americans rushed to the bank to withdraw their money in what were known as bank runs. The program most directly preventing that from happening today is this.
What is the FDIC?
500
We've talked a lot about the Supreme Court this chapter. Name at least two current SCOTUS justices.
Who are: John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Kentaji Brown Jackson.