The Crash
The Dust Bowl
FDR Legacy
The New Deal
Hoover's Admin
100
This event is often considered to be the starting point of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
100
Which term was used to the region of the American mid-west that suffered a devastating drought full of huge dirt storms during the 1930's.
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
In what decade did most of the Great Depression take place?
What is the 1930's?
100
He was the United States president that gave "relief" to the people during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
100
The Hoover Blanket was this
what is outdated newspapers the homeless used to keep warm
200
He was the United States president during the early years of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
200
List 3 Causes of the Dust Bowl
1. What is a drought
2. What is high winds
3. What is over farming
4. What is loss of prairie grasses
200
How did FDR communicate to the American people?
Radio/Fireside Chats
200
The largest public power provider in the U.S., established by Congress in 1933 as a federal corporation to provide energy, flood control, and economic development for the Tennessee Valley.
What is the TVA?
200
Homeless people blamed this person for the unfortunate, difficult situation
Who is Hoover
300
The ____ _____ is where brokers and traders can buy and sell stocks.
Stock Market
300
Many people left the great plains during the drought and went to California, they were called
What are Okies?
300
FDR's plan to help provide some relief from the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
300
It built public infrastructure (roads, schools, bridges) and funded arts and education projects, employing 8.5 million people before closing in 1943.
What is the WPA?
300
What tariff did Hoover pass that exacerbated the effects of the Great Depression?
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
400
After the stock market crash, people rushed to their banks causing this.
What is Banks closing down/Bank runs?
400
Name of the woman who took photos of people struggling during the Depression....
Dorothea Lange
400
What was FDR's greatest mistake (think checks and balances)?
Trying to pack the Supreme Court
400
Passed by Congress, allowed only sound banks to reopen, the rest remained closed
What was the Emergency Banking Relief Act?
400
The unemployed and poor often lived in "shanty towns." They were often referred to as...
What is a Hooverville?
500
Companies were under the assumption that they were making a lot of money because they were selling a lot of products. However, this wasn't true because most people got their products using ______ ______ and did not make their payments.
installment plans / buying on credit
500
As a result of the failure of their farms due to the Dust Bowl, many people moved to _____ to find farming work.
The West / California
500
What amendment was passed to officially restrict a president to TWO terms?
22nd
500
What are the three "R's" of the New Deal?
Relief, recovery, reform
500
How did Hoover respond to helping people during the Great Depression?
It would work itself out...
600
This group demanded that Hoover authorize early payment of a promised military bonus.
What is the Bonus Army?
600
John Steinbeck's book discussing the journey of those migrating from the Dust Bowl...
What is Grapes of Wrath?
600
This world event brought America out of the Great Depression for good.
What is World War II?
600
What was the nickname for the New Deal?
Alphabet Soup
600
President Hoover believed in Laissez Faire government?
A) The government should intervene in the economy.
B) The government should never intervene in the economy.
C) The Great Depression was caused by labor union strikes.
D) None of the Above
B) The government should never intervene in the economy.