What is the agricultural problem in which there are more crops than there is demand for them?
What is Overproduction
100
What day is associated with the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
What is Black Tuesday
100
What is the organization that guaranteed that money deposited in banks wouldn't be lost in a bank failure
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
100
Who took the presidency from Herbert Hoover?
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt
100
This repealed the Dawes Act and provided funds for indians to purchase additional tribal lands.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act
200
What were people from Oklahoma called in California that was meant as a derogatory term?
What are Okies
200
Where do people trade stocks and shares of companies, what is it called?
What is the Stock Market
200
What group worked on the American infrastructure but was only available to young single men?
What is Civilian Conservation Corps
200
What did they call shoddy or makeshift housing communities during the great depression?
What is Hoovervilles
200
This Act brought old age pensions, disability payments, and other safeguards to the american people.
What is the Social Security Act
300
Who was the author of the Grapes of Wrath?
Who is John Stienbeck
300
Who was president during the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Who is Herbert Hoover
300
What jobs organization was the biggest in the New Deal and employed every type of occupation, artists, contractors, actors, etc.
What is Works Progress Administration
300
What did they call newspapers during the great depression
What are Hoover Blankets
300
This organization...which also has the name of a college athletic conference, was responsible for regulating the Stock Market to prevent future collapse?
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission
400
What New Deal Act was designed to help farmers reverse the effects of the dust bowl?
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act
400
What is it called when people assumed that stock prices would rise forever instead of eventually leveling off?
What is Speculation
400
What relief act closed the banks temporarily?
What is Emergency Banking Act
400
What did they call it during the depression when americans would turn their pockets inside out?
What are Hoover Flags
400
What group was responsible for repairing roads, gas lines, sewage lines, and other parts of the American infrastructure?
What is Civil Works Administration
500
What was the type of grass that was cleared that was actually good for the soil and water retention? Hint: The name of an animal
What is Buffalo Grass
500
What is it called when you buy stocks on credit?
What is Buying on Margin
500
What group brought cheap electric power to southern states and controlled flooding in the region?
What is Tennessee Valley Authority
500
What was Hoovers concept called which said that Americans are independent, don't need the government to help them, and can do things on their own?
What is Rugged Individualism
500
What is the other name for the National Labor Relations Act?