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This repealed the Dawes Act and provided funds for indians to purchase additional tribal lands.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