This is the name of the legislative program put forward by FDR to address the ills of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
100
This group impeded the New Deal by finding some of its programs unconstitutional.
What is the Supreme Court?
100
These shanty towns were built by homeless people during the Great Depression.
What were Hoovervilles?
200
He won the 1932 Presidential Election and was responsible for the New Deal.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt.
200
This was caused by a major drought and over farming of the land.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
This piece of New Deal legislation provided a retirement fund for elderly Americans.
What is Social Security?
200
This created more government involvement and assistance in the lives of Americans.
What were the long term effects of the New Deal?
200
These people hopped trains and traveled from town to town looking for jobs.
Who were hobos?
300
Depression era photographer who put a face on the Depression.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
300
This panic by depositors forced banks to close after people withdrew all of their money which the banks couldn't cover.
What is a "run on the banks"?
300
This legislation provided deposit insurance on bank accounts and reestablished trust in the U.S. Banking System.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
300
This attempt to add more judges to the Supreme Court that would support his New Deal Programs backfired on FDR.
What was FDR's court packing attempt?
300
This event altered U.S. demographics by causing people to move from the Midwest to California.
What was the Dust Bowl?
400
Senator from Louisiana and critic of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal.
Who is Huey Long?
400
This action - the U.S. raising tariffs on foreign goods - was meant to increase domestic products, but was short sighted.
What caused foreign countries to stop buying U.S. goods?
400
This legislative program provided relief, recovery and reform to the ills of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
400
These were the 6 causes of the Great Depression.
What were uneven prosperity, excessive buying on credit, playing the stock market, overproduction, trouble for farmers, and trouble for workers and industries?
400
This derisive name was applied to people moving from Oklahoma to California because of the Dust Bowl.
What was an Okie?
500
Priest and critic of the New Deal.
Who is Father Charles Coughlin?
500
This group of World War I veterans demonstrated for early payment of money promised by Congress.
What is the Bonus Army?
500
The purpose of this New Deal legislation was to regulate the stock market.
What is the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)?
500
Farmers implemented these 3 things to avoid another Dust Bowl.
What were new irrigation techniques, crop rotation, and leaving fields fallow?
500
This population segment had the highest unemployment rate during the Great Depression.