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100
Drought, strong winds, and eroded top soil led to this giant natural disaster throughout the Great Plains
What is The Dust Bowl
100
Shantytowns during the Great Depression
What is Hoovervilles
100
Gave outdoor jobs to young men, such as planting trees and draining swamps
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps
100
John Steinbeck wrote this book about a family of "Okies" and their struggles as they moved to Cali
What is the Grapes of Wrath
100
FDR ran with this political party
What is the Democratic Party
200
the practice of purchasing shares on the market on credit
What is buying on a margin
200
Places where the poor and unemployed would go to get food
What is breadlines or soup kitchens
200
Provided loans to farm owners and controlled the prices of crops
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act
200
This female photographer took the infamous photograph of the "Migrant Mother" which captured the despair people faced during the Depression
What is Dorothea Lange
200
FDR died of this crippling disease in 1945
What is polio
300
High taxes on imported goods
What is a tariff
300
Jobless, homeless men who rode the trains in search for jobs
What is Hobos
300
Built 21 large dams along the Tennessee River which controlled floods and produced hydroelectricity.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority
300
He wrote poems about the hardships endured by African American workers throughout the 20s, 30s, and 40s.
What is Langston Hughes
300
The name for FDR's attempt to fill the Supreme Court with judges who agreed with his political views
What is the Court Packing Scheme
400
Companies and farms had too much inventory, more than they could sell, which is called
What is overproduction
400
Group of WWI veterans that protested outside of the White House demanding the pay they were promised
What is the Bonus Army
400
Increased employment by creating new public works projects, such as building schools, roads and bridges
What is The Works Progress Administration
400
A fantasy escape film in which the child heroine ultimately prefers Dust Bowl Kansas to the magical land out West.
What is the Wizard of Oz
400
FDR was the only president to serve this many term.
What is FOUR
500
October 29, 1929 and also the day the stock market crashed
What is black Tuesday
500
President Hoover's biggest accomplishment, which employed thousands of workers.
What is the Hoover Dam
500
Provided unemployment insurance, retirement benefits, and grants for the disabled.
What is Social Security Act
500
He sang iconic folk songs that captured the anger that many felt about the Depression and life in America in the 30s and 40s.
What is Woody Guthrie
500
The group of advisers, professors, researchers, and lawyers that FDR hired to come up with the New Deal policies.
What is Brain Trust
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