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People
Catch-All
100

The Roaring Twenties gave way to a severe economic decline known by this nickname.

The Great Depression

100

The first name of FDR's wife. She was an author, diplomat, and humanitarian who helped young people and minorities.

Eleanor Roosevelt

100

The 1930s drought of North American prairie farm land, and its consequences during the Great Depression.

The Dust Bowl

100

The 32nd President of the US. He led the country through the Great Depression and WWII. He served four terms, more than any other president.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

100

FDR's plan to end the Great Depression.

The New Deal

200

What or WHO caused the Great Depression? Many political cartoons said, "BLAME IT ON _______"

HOOVER

200

When people lost faith in these, the FDIC was established.

banks

200
The dought of the 1930s hit as far north as North Dakota to as far south as THIS STATE.

Texas

200

He was the president before Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Herbert Hoover

200

Roosevelt won reelection by a huge margin in 1936, carrying every state but Maine and Vermont. THIS PARTY expanded its dominant control of Congress.

Democrats

300

The process of buying stocks with credit, hoping to sell at a high enough price to pay the loan and make a profit.

buying on the margin

300

What problem led to the creation of Social Security?

elderly lack financial security

300

2-word name for the radio programs in which FDR explained his plan for recovery from the Great Depression.

Fireside Chats

300

This Oklahoma-born folk singer crisscrossed the country singing his songs of loss and struggle. One contained the line, “All along your green valley I’ll work till I die”—a grim reality for some Americans.

Woody Guthrie

300

A rhythm in which an economy expands and contracts its production.

the business cycle

400

October 29, 1929 is known by this nickname.

Black Tuesday

400

What problem led to the creation of the Wagner Act?

many workers do not earn a decent wage/unions were strengthened

400

Starting in 1935, new projects began to put the country’s painters, sculptors, writers, and actors to work. Name the government program or the abbreviation.

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

400

This author was deeply affected by the Great Depression. Depression life became a main theme of his most famous novel, The Grapes of Wrath. The novel tells the story of the Joads, a family of farmers who are forced to move to California for work.

John Steinbeck

400

What problem led to the creation of the Wagner Act?

many workers do not earn a decent wage so it strengthened unions

500

A group of WWI veterans that demanded their bonus payments early.

The Bonus Army

500

High unemployment led to the creation of 3 government programs to provide jobs. Name one of these programs (either by full name or 3-letter abbreviation.)

CWA, CCC, and WPA Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Civil Works Administration (CWA) Works Progress Administration (WPA)

500

Mary McLeod Bethune was one of several African Americans Roosevelt appointed to his administration. Other members included Walter White, Robert C. Weaver, and William Henry Hastie. These advisers became known as the _____ _________. Their role was to advance the concerns of African Americans in the Roosevelt White House.

The Black Cabinet

500

An African American educator and leader who rose to national prominence during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, who appointed her director of the National Youth Administration’s Division of Negro Affairs.

Mary McLeod Bethune

500

A governmental agency designed to bring jobs and electricity to rural areas of the Tennessee River valley.

Tennessee Valley Authority

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