Causes of Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hooverville
Alphabet Soup
Odds and Ends
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

People who traveled looking for work?

Who are Hobos.

100
This the agency which helped stop the flooding in the Tennessee Valley. ___ ____ A
What is the TVA
100

What Olympic runner was an early advocate for the Civil Rights Movement?

Who is Jessie Owens?

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
Who were the people who liked Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What is poor and unemployed
200

Where the homeless ate during the Great Depression?

What is a soup kitchen.


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. ___ ____ A
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

300
What happened to the United States banks after the stock market crash?
The banks ran out of money. (They gave out IOU's instead)
300
What is the name of the disease that kept FDR in a wheelchair most of the time
What is Polio
300

Empty pockets turned inside out?

Hoover flags

300
This Act in 1935 provided (and still provides today) money for people after they have retired.
What is Social Security
300

Who wrote Gone With the Wind?

Who is Margaret Mitchell?

400
What is overproduction
What is when a company makes more products (TVs, Cars, Radios, etc) than people are willing to buy.
400
What was the name of his radio broadcasts were he spoke to all America like they were simply his friends
What are Fireside Chats
400

City with a large Hooverville that had churches?

What is St. Louis.?

400
This agency build public airports, sewers, roads, schools, and other buildings. It spent over 10.5 Billion dollars and employed 3.8 Million men. W ____ ____.
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

500

What is two functions of a bank and two functions of the government?

A Bank provides checkings and savings and provides loans.

The Government provides public goods and collects taxes.

500
Who were people that disliked FDR
What is the rich
500

City where the Bonus Army was located?

What is Washington, D.C.

500
This group of men ages 18 - 26 learned forestry skills t help improve our national forest and national parks during the 1930's. ___ ____ C.
What is the CCC
500
What does Woody Guthrie really think of America in his song "This Land is Your Land"?
What is the America is no longer made for everyone. OR It is changing for the worst as people are getting greedy.
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