The situation in which the supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demand.
What is overproduction?
100
The wealthy New Yorker who was nominated to run against Hoover in 1932?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
The most famous working woman in the country.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
100
Define payroll tax.
What is a tax that removes money directly from workers' paychecks?
100
This is where the Great Plains are located.
What is betweent the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains?
200
The human cost of the Great Depression. (Name at least two)
What is lives were lost due to hunger, sucide, train jumping, or disease?
200
The 2 sectors that the President needed to help the economy recover in.
What is industry and agriculture?
200
The rights guaranteed in the Constitution especially voting and equal treatment under the law.
What are Civil Rights?
200
The other name for the Wagner Act.
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
200
This created the dust in the Dust Bowl.
What is wind erosion because of poor farming techniques.
300
T/F: October 19, 1929 "Black Tuesday" was the day the stock market crashed.
What is False?
300
The 3 goals of the New Deal.
What is relief for the jobless, economic recovery, and reforms to prevent future depressions?
300
The states that were affected by the Dust Bowl.
What are Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota?
300
Frances Perkins
Who is the secretary of FDR?
300
Name some acts that the Fair Labor Act performed.
What is set minimum wages at 25 cents per hour and maximum weekly work hours at 44 hours, established time and a half payment for overtime work, and put an end to child labor in most businesses?
400
These people built communities and built Hoovervilles because they blamed the president for failing to solve the crisis.
What are homeless people?
400
Define "brain trust."
What are FDR's advisers because they had been college professors?
400
An educator and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt who became the top ranking African American in the government.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
400
Define CIO.
What is Congress of industrial Organizations?
400
True or false: FDR instituded New Deal legislation to promote economic recovery; the government's role in social wellfare decreases.
What is false?
500
The corporation formed to fund critical businesses.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
500
This organization hired city dwellers to work in America's national parks and forest, wilderness areas, and countrysides.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
500
These were meant to help people forget their troubles, similar to the radio, which was a vital part of life.
What are movies?
500
FDR's active approach did this to the US.
What is employed millions of people, ended the banking crisis, reformed the stock market, saved poor families, and improved working conditions?
500
Many headed West to California to find work. Once they reached there they were often rejected because of their race. These people are?
What are African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans?