Causes of Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
General Info
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

Many people did this to find travel cheaply while trying to find work. 

Riding the Rails

100

The agency that built hydroelectric dams to provide electricity to rural areas. 

What is the TVA

100

This couple was notorious for their crime and evading capture. 

Bonnie and Clyde

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 benefited from the New Deal Programs? 

What is poor and unemployed

200

Railroad police or guards were called

Bulls

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
300

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

The banks ran out of money. 

300
What is the name of the disease that kept FDR in a wheelchair most of the time
What is Polio
300

This government agency failed to protect banks across the nation. 

What is the Federal Reserve? 

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
400

What did the overproduction of farm goods do to the cost?

Farming goods decreased in price, making profit minimal. 

400

FDR's wife Eleanor Roosevelt created the ________ for women as FDR's CCC was created for men. 

The "SheSheShe" 
400

Unemployment reached this percentage during the Great Depression.

What is 25 percent? 

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. 

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 it called when you borrow money in order to buy more stock?
What is "buying on margin" or "Doubling Down" or On Margin
500

The amount of popular votes or percentage won by FDR in the election of 1932. (Margin of 3)

23 million votes

57%

500

Name at least 3 states where the Dust Bowl occurred. 

Oklahoma, Texas,  Kansas, Colorado,  New Mexico

500

This act mandated a 40 hr work week with overtime pay, set an hourly minimum wage, and restricted child labor. 

What is the Fair Labor Standards Act.

500

FDR spoke to the American people through special radio programs called ______.

Fireside chats 

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