New Deal Alphabet
Warning: May Cause Depression
The Ghost of Tom Joad
Presidents
Just Like Ma's Stew
100
RRR - the main goals of the New Deal
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
100
High winds, drought, and removal of the sod layer by modern farming methods.
What are the causes of the dust bowl?
100
The struggles of this family, including son Tom, are at the heart of "The Grapes of Wrath"
Who is the Joad family?
100
He took office after Herbert Hoover during the depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
100
person who travels from one region to another in search of work.
What is a migrant worker?
200
This program provided jobs and electricity to rural areas in the Tennessee Valley.
What is the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?
200
One reason for the stock market collapse, investors buying stock through this risky method.
What is margin buying/buying on credit?
200
Those effected by the Dust Bowl left their homes and moved to this state hoping to find work.
What is California?
200
DAILY DOUBLE
As a way of criticizing the federal government during the early 1930s, areas such as those shown in this photograph were often referred to by this nickname.
200
Congress decided that Social Security would be paid for by levying one of these.
What is a payroll tax?
300
This program created pensions and payments for elderly, disabled and others who weren't able to work...
What is the SSA (Social Security Administration)?
300
A cause of the depression, it's when there are too many goods produced and not enough buyers.
What is the overproduction?
300
In which area of the United States did the Dust Bowl of the 1930s occur?
What is the Great Plains or southwestern Plains?
300
What was the set of FDR's programs for the country called?
The New Deal
300
The right of a union to negotiate wages and benefits for all of its members.
What is collective bargaining?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
This program established a system to insure bank deposits.
400
The percentage of people that were out of work during the height of the Great Depression.
What is 25%?
400
A derogatory nickname used to refer to people leaving areas of the Dust Bowl.
What is "Okies"?
400
As the public face of the Roosevelt administration she traveled the country to report conditions to the President and to help evaluate needs.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
400
Conservatives, liberals, the Supreme Court, and U.S. Senator Huey Long.
Who are people who criticized/opposed the New Deal/FDR?
500
The Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, was created to reform and deal with problems in this part of the economy.
What is the stock market?
500
October 29, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
500
Author of the Depression-era classic, The Grapes of Wrath.
Who is John Steinbeck?
500
Broadcasts where FDR would talk to the people about the New Deal and try to lift their spirits.
What are Fireside Chats?
500
A situation in which the government spends more money than it receives in taxes.
What is deficit spending?