Great Depression
A period of extreme financial hardship in the U.S.
What is the Great Depression?
This person won the 1932 election by a landslide.
Who is FDR?
A dam built on the Colorado River.
What is the Hoover/Boulder Dam?
An agency created to insure money that is deposited in bank accounts.
What is the FDIC?
This person was originally blamed for the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
When all banks closed for four days to get their accounts in order.
What is the Bank Holiday?
The period of time where FDR passed the majority of his New Deal legislation.
What are the first 100 days?
A controversial program because it put the government in competition with private businesses.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
A pension that you receive when you retire?
What is Social Security?
A massive dust storm caused by a drought in the midwest.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The highest tax ever placed on imported goods.
What is the Hawley Smoot Tariff?
FDR's belief on how the Great Depression should be handled.
What is Direct Relief?
The rates of these things DECREASED during the Great Depression.
What are Marriage and Birth Rates?
A group of New Deal programs categorized by their acronyms.
What are the Alphabet Agencies?
A group of WWI Veterans who marched on Washington D.C. to receive their pensions.
What is the Bonus Army?
The rates of these things INCREASED during the Great Depression.
What are Divorce and Suicide Rates?
How FDR communicated with the American people.
What are his Fireside Chats?
This program promoted the increase of crop prices by paying farmers to grow less.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
A New Deal program that offered direct employment through the construction of roads, bridges, and public buildings.
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
The date that the Stock Market crashed.
What is 10/29/29?
Herbert Hoover's belief on how the Great Depression should be handled.
What is Rugged Individualism?
FDR proposed this idea to put Supreme Court justices on the court that would support his New Deal legislation.
What is "packing the court"?
The main opponent of the New Deal.
What is the Supreme Court?
The three R's of the New Deal.
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
Name THREE alphabet agencies created as a result of the New Deal.
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