Causes & Clauses
How Depressing
A New Deal
Presidents & Presents
100

A cause of the Great Depression where people lost their investments.

What is the Stock Market Crash?

100

The main character in "Cinderella Man."

Who was James "Jimmy" Braddock?

100

The collection of government programs designed to aid Americans during the Great Depression.

What is the New Deal?

100

The president who was ineffective at reacting to the Great Depression.

Who was Herbert Hoover?

200

A cause of the Great Depression which caused banks to fail around the nation.

What was the bank run?

200

Young men who traveled the country on freight trains during the Great Depression looking for work.

Who are hobos?

200

Aside from boxing, Jim Braddock worked here to make money during "Cinderella Man."

Where are the docks?

200

The nickname for shanty towns in major cities during the Great Depression.

What is a Hooverville?

300

The American government didn't do this which led to the Depression.

What is regulate the economy?

300

The major dust storms that occurred during the Great Depression.

What is the Dust Bowl?

300

Permanent economic programs that are designed to prevent future economic crisis.

What is reform?

300

President Franklin Roosevelt's radio addresses to the nation.

What are Fireside Chats?

400

The boxer that was defeated in the final fight of "Cinderella Man."

Who was Max Baer?

400

The Dust Bowl affected this group of Americans the most during the Great Depression.

Who were farmers?

400

Immediate action to halt the economies deterioration.

What is a relief?

400

Critics of FDR and the New Deal claimed that the programs turned America into this state.

What is a welfare state?

500

The law passed by President Hoover that made the Great Depression worse.

What is the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act?

500

Many Americans found themselves with this unfortunate status during the Great Depression.

What is unemployed?
500

Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer goods.

What is a recovery?

500

Jim Braddock's trainer and manager.

Who was Joe Gould?

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