Great Depression 1
This is the spark of the Great Depression
What is the the stock market crash?
What area of the country did the Dust Bowl affect?
The Great Plains
What ended the Great Depression?
World War II
Term when ALL banks were forced to close for FOUR days.
What was the “Bank Holiday?”
Emergency Banking Relief Act- Passed by Congress, allowed only sound banks to reopen, the rest remained closed
Many said Hoover's ideas at the end of his presidency regarding the Great Depression were this
What is too little, too late?
In 1933, the unemployment rate in the US was this percent.
What is 25%
What is 100?
Executive Order 6102 required people to sell all of this they owned to the government.
What is gold?
Hoover began construction on this in 1931
What is the Hoover Dam?
Construction program that brought electricity, navigable waterways, controlled flooding, created jobs in the South
What is the TVA?
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established this.
What is a minimum wage?
She became the first Black woman to lead an agency in the U.S. government.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
President during the beginning of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
FDR's trying to fill the Supreme Court with appointees.
What is court packing?
The FDIC currently protects bank deposits up to this amount.
What is $250,000?
This person became the "eyes, ears, and legs" of FDR.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
FDR was elected to this number of terms as president.
What is 4?
This amendment repealed prohibition
What is the 21st?
This is the process of paying a small percentage of a stock as a down payment and borrowing the rest."
What is "buying on margin?
This is the name of the slums or shanty towns during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
The 20th Amendment was sometimes called the Lame _____ Amendment
What is duck?
This program protected consumer's bank deposits.
What is the FDIC?
Famous speeches FDR gave over the radio to Americans
What are Fireside Chats?
FDR shifted his worries to this person near the end of the Great Depression.
Who is Hitler?
What is the date of Black Tuesday ?
October 29, 1929
How long did Great Depression last ? Through what years ?
10 years and 1929-1939
This act provided monthly income to the elderly and retired persons.
What is Social Security Act?
This program was set up to regulate the stock market.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
the 3 R's of the New Deal
What are Relief, Recovery, Reform?
the TVA
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?