Vocab
People
Hobos
Program Soup
Money Soup
100
This is a situation when a person who wants a job cannot get a job.
What is unemployment?
100
Which president held fireside chats that were broadcast over the radio to the American people?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
Many hobos were from this age group.
What are teenagers?
100
This program sent funds to depleted local relief agencies, and gave instant relief to thousands.
What is the FERA? (Federal Emergency Relief Administration)
100
this agency was formed by congress to insure deposits up to $2500/$5000. It reestablished American faith in banks.
What is the FDIC? (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
200
This is where unemployed people and families could go to get a free meal.
What is a breadline?
200
This is the name for the group of men who fought in WWI, and wanted to get their Bonus checks early. They marched on Washington, and were beaten back by soldiers.
What is the Bonus Army?
200
This is how hobos traveled from one part of the country to another.
What is jumping freight trains?
200
This agency provided work for 8 million Americans. It created jobs in art, music, and literature as well as construction and architecture.
What is the WPA? (Works Progress Administration)
200
This organization was created to regulate the stock market.
What is the SEC? (Securities and Exchange Commission)
300
This is the name for a collection of shacks where many families lived after they lost their homes.
What is a Hooverville?
300
Who was president at the beginning of the Great Depression and got voted out of office?
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
This is a reason why many teens left home to become hobos.
What is the families couldn't afford to feed them, or they were looking for adventure?
300
This program created jobs in one of America’s least modernized areas and provided cheap electric power, flood control, and recreational opportunities to the entire Tennessee River valley.
What is the TVA? (Tennessee Valley Authority)
300
This act provided old-age pensions for workers, survivor benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance,and aid for dependant mothers and children, the blind and physically disabled persons.
What is the SSA or Social Security Act?
400
This is the name for the area that was plagued by drought during the great depression where nothing would grow.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
Which president started the New Deal?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
Under bridges
When not riding trains, hobos slept here?
400
This program gave the unemployed jobs building or repairing roads, parks, airports, etc., and provided a psychological and physical boost to its 4 million workers.
What is the CWA? (Civil Works Administration)
400
This environmental program put 2.5 million unmarried men to work, and later over 8,000 women. It taught men and women of America how to live independently.
What is the CCC? (Civilian Conservation Corps)
500
An equal or fair amount.
What is parity?
500
Which woman wanted to see women play a larger role in Washington politics? She also was active in the fight against racism.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
500
This is what hobos called their camps.
What are hobo jungles?
500
Insured loans for building and repairing homes
What is the FHA (Federal Home Administration)?
500
This program tried to raise farm prices by paying farmers not to grow crops and to kill off livestock. It was later declared unconstitutional.
What is the AAA? (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
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