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Miscellaneous
Hoover...Nobody Does It Like You
Deal or New Deal?
New Deal and New Deal 2.0
100
Identify one of the reasons for the Dust Bowl
What is over-plowing of the same land, severe drought in the Midwest, windy conditions and lack of ground cover
100
This Depression Era writer wrote his most famous book, The Grapes of Wrath, about a family's move from Oklahoma to California.
Who is John Steinbeck?
100
In many communities, these sprawling neighborhoods of shacks sprang up on the outskirts of town or in public parks to house the newly homeless.
What are Hoovervilles?
100
This is the name that FDR gave to his programs to bring America out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
100
This program, part of FDR's Second New Deal & still in existence today, provides a pension, or guaranteed, regular payments, for many people 65 and older.
What is Social Security?
200
The worst day of the Dust Bowl is known as
What is Black Sunday?
200
This famous depression era singer sang such famous songs as "This Land is Your Land"
Who is Woody Guthrie?
200
These vagrants hopped trains to travel from town to town in search of work.
Who are hobos?
200
In contrast to Hoover, Roosevelt had the basic faith in the ability of the __________ to solve economic and social problems and to help people in need.
What is government?
200
To pay for his New Deal programs, Roosevelt sometimes had to do this.
What is deficit spending?
300
Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas are
What is the states in which the Dust Bowl was most severe
300
This is the agency responsible for securing bank deposits.
What is the FDIC?
300
People desperate for something to eat often went to these (Al Capone even opened one in Chicago)
What are soup kitchens?
300
During his first 100 Days, Roosevelt issued an executive order doing this in order to prevent a run on banks.
What is closing all the banks in a "bank holiday"?
300
This New Deal Program employed young men to work in Americas parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
400
Looking for a better life during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, many unemployed people did this.
What is became hobos and took to riding the rails looking for work
400
This New Deal program created jobs by building scores of dams throughout Tennessee and its neighboring states.
What is the TVA?
400
During the Great Depression (before the FDIC) when a bank collapsed what happened to your money?
What is you generally lost it all.
400
FDR frequently gave these over the radio to inform citizens and tell them about his programs to bring America out of the Great Depression.
What are fireside chats?
400
After the U.S. Supreme Court declared the NRA and AAA unconstitutional, FDR attempted to do this
What is pack the Supreme Court?
500
President during the beginning of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
500
Name the three Rs, the three purposes of FDR's New Deal Programs.
What are Reform, Recovery and Relief
500
Though he graduated with a degree from Stanford University, Herbert Hoover was a farm boy born in this state.
What is Iowa.
500
Created in 1934, this still serves as a government watchdog over the nation’s stock market.
What is the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)?
500
This group of people thought that FDR had not done enough for the American people.