Farming Fails
The Great Panic
Money Matters
"Had it with Hoover"
Alphabet Soup
100

Many American farmers overproduced after what war?

What is World War I?

100

The unemployment percentage in 1933, the worst year of the Depression

What is 25%?

100

Making predictions about making a quick profit in the stock market, without considering the risk

What is speculation?

100

People showed their disgust with Hoover by calling shantytowns this

What is a Hooverville?

100

The nickname for the New Deal programs

What is "alphabet soup"?

200
Many farmers in this region lost their farms during the Great Depression

What are the Great Plains?

200

Because of America's foreign policy in the 1920's, as far as trade goes, what was a raised?

What are tariffs?

200

Borrowing money to buy shares of stock

What is "buying on margin"?

200

Hoover worked for this agency during World War I

What is the Food Administration?
200

Two of the three "R's" of the New Deal

What are relief, recovery, or reform?  

300

Decline in this sector of the economy was the first sign that our country might be headed for economic trouble

What is the agricultural sector?

300

One long-range spending trend adopted by many effected by the Great Depression

What is saving money or being more frugal?  

300

Hoover did not believe in "handouts" from the government-the term he used to describe getting a job and working for a living

What is "rugged individualism"?

300

The winner of the 1932 Presidential Election

Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?  

300

This New Deal agency reflected President Franklin Roosevelt's concern for the environment

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?

400

The nickname for Great Plains farmers that were forced to migrate to California to find work

Who were the Okies?

400

This event occurred on October 29, 1929

What is the Stock Market Crash?

400

The Bonus Army was veterans of this war

What was World War I?

400

Hoover used this term to describe the return of good economic times

What is prosperity?  

400

This New Deal agency was established to regulate the stock market

What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?  

500

Name three causes of the Dust Bowl

What are lack of crop rotation, drought, and high winds?

500
The event that officially ended the Great Depression

What is World War II?  

500

A government system for giving payments to the poor

What is "direct relief"?

500

Empty pockets were given this nickname

What are "Hoover flags"?

500

This New Deal agency has had the biggest long-term impact on society

What is Social Security?

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