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100
Farmers had a surplus of food because of this.
What is because they tried to help feed allied powers in WWI.
100
On October 29th, 1929, this happened in the stock market causing people to lose all of their money.
What is the stock market crash?
100
Young people graduating from high school and college couldn't find these as a consequence of the Great Depression.
What are jobs?
100
This person was elected for President in 1932 and thought to be able to help those in need.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt or FDR?
100
This was the purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Administrations or AAA.
What is to help farmers decrease production in order to raise prices. Farmers were paid to grow less of certain crops, such as wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco, and rice.
200
This happened with the prices of crops because there were so many.
What is the prices fell or decreased?
200
This is what it's called when people borrowed money from the bank to invest in stocks.
What is credit?
200
Young people waited to ______ and have ______ because of the Great Depression.
What is get married and have children?
200
The New Deal focused on these 3 major goals.
What is relief, recovery, and reform?
200
This was the purpose of the CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps.
What is set up work camps for more than 2 million unemployed young men between the ages of 18 to 25. They received housing, food, and $30 a month. It is known for planting trees on public lands.
300
_______ were producing more goods than they could sell.
What are factories?
300
This happened to the banks because people weren't able to pay back their loans after the stock market crash.
What is the banks closed?
300
These two groups of people tried to find work during the Great Depression.
What is women and children?
300
This program was created to help farmers buy needed equipment.
What is the FSA or Farm Security Administration?
300
People thought the ________ could have done more to help during the Great Depression.
What is the government?
400
This happened to workers in factories when no one was buying their goods.
What is being laid off?
400
Congress placed high ______ on goods from other countries to try and help American farmers.
What is a tariffs?
400
People built shelters out of cardboard. They were called this.
What are shantytowns?
400
This program was created to protect investors in the Stock Market.
What is the SEC or Securities and Exchange Commission?
400
What was the purpose of the WPA or Works Progress Administration?
What is employed more than 8 million people to build roads, schools, bridges, parks, and airports?
500
This is the condition of being out of work.
What is unemployment?
500
Because Americans were placing high tariffs on goods from other countries, other countries passed high tariffs on American goods. This happened as a result.
What is trade decreased between countries?
500
This program established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
What is the SSA or Social Security Administration?
500
What was the purpose of the TVA or Tennessee Valley Authority?
What is built about 50 dams along rivers in the South to prevent flooding. They also built 13 power plants to provide electricity to homes?
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