Causes of Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
New Deal
Odds and Ends
Mixed Bag
100
This took place in 1929 and is considered the start of the Great Depression since many people lost all of their money in it
What is the Stock Market Crash
100
What was the name of his plan he created to help improve the economy
What is the "New Deal"
100

This the agency which helped stop the flooding in the Tennessee Valley. 

What is the TVA

100

nickname for migrant workers

What is an okie?

100

First action FDR did as President

What is Bank Holiday? (or closed the banks, etc)

200
This President thought that by doing nothing the economy would get better because the economy goes up then down then back up
What is Herbert Hoover
200

Three R's of the New Deal

What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
200

This Agency paid farmers NOT to grow their crops in order to raise the price of crops. This doubled the prices of Crops before being declared unconstitutional in 1936. 

What is AAA

200
What would you call a group of cardboard houses set up in a public park or street alley?
What is a Hooverville
200

This forced half a million immigrants to move out of the United States during the Great Depression

What is the Mexican Repatriation Act?
300

What happened to the United States banks after the stock market crash?

The banks ran out of money because they had invested in the stock market and people lost their money

300

This is how many times FDR got elected

What is 4?
300
This Act in 1935 provided (and still provides today) money for people after they have retired.
What is Social Security
300
Name 1 way Herbert Hoover was different from FDR
MANY ANSWERS WILL WORK
300

This was a group of veterans that marched to the Capitol to demand their bonus from serving in WWI

What is the Bonus Army?
400

What is when a company makes more products (TVs, Cars, Radios, etc) than people are willing to buy.

What is overproduction

400

FDR's radio broadcasts where he spoke to all America like they were simply his friends

What are Fireside Chats

400

This agency build public airports, sewers, roads, schools, and other buildings. It spent over 10.5 Billion dollars and employed 8 Million men.

What is the WPA

400
What was the name of the drought that caused many farmers in the great plains to have terrible harvests in the 1930's?
What is the dust bowl
400

The US's central banking system (it made lots of mistakes that ultimately was a cause of the Great Depression

What is the Federal Reserve?

500

This is what it's called when you pay a small amount for a stock and pay the rest back over time

What is "buying on margin"?

500

FDR passed more legislation than any other president during his first _____.

What is First Hundred Days?
500

This group of men ages 18 - 26 learned forestry skills t help improve our national forest and national parks during the 1930's. 


What is the CCC

500

John Steinbeck's book about a migrant farmer during the Great Depression

Grapes of Wrath

500

When the Supreme Court didn't agree with him, FDR proposed adding additional justices to the Supreme Court, also known as this

What is the court packing plan? (Or what is court packing?)

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