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Earnings on stocks

What is the stock market

100

President Hoover's Nickname during the Great Depression 

What is Great Humanitarian 

100

Gave president broad powers to control banking policies and to reopen banks as he saw fit

What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act

100

Government must take control of bringing a nation out if economic depression 

What is Keynesian Economics 

100

Governments attempt to to control wages & prices to limit competition among businesses 

What is the NRA, National Recovery Act

200

Place where people bought and sold stocks

what is New York Stock Exchange

200

First three months of Roosevelt's presidency in which 15 major laws were passed in Congress 

What is First Hundred Days 

200

President Roosevelt's radio conversations with the American people to reassure them during Great Depression 

What is fireside chats

200

Spending more than received from taxes and other revenues 

What is deficit 

200

Public relief program that built roads,  bridges,  public buildings,  parks, & other facilities 

What is WPA, Works Progress Admin

300

Risky investments for the chance of making a quick profit

What is speculation 

300

Novel by John Steinbeck that intended to draw attention to the migrant farmworkers

What is The Grapes of Wrath

300

Insured all members bank accounts for up to $5,000 per account

What is FDIC- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

300

Legalized the sale of liquor, repealing Prohibition 

What is the 21st Amendment 

300

Government project that provided jibs for young men 

What is CCC-Civilian Conservation Corps

400

Paying a small % of the price of a stock in hopes of selling it at a profit & paying off the loan

What is on margin

400

Losing confidence in banks, people rush to withdraw their money

What us bank runs

400

President Roosevelt's government spending and jobs program

What is New Deal

400

Project that controled flooding, conserved soil, & brought hydroelectric power to the South 

What is TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority 

400

Act that established a government fund for unemployment & old age insurance 

What is the Social Security Act

500

Supply of unsold goods

What is surplus inventory 

500

Closing banks for a certain period if time

What is bank holidays 

500

Group of socialist University professors who advised Roosevelt on his economic & social reforms 

What is "brain trust"

500

Act that paid farmers not to plaint crops or graze livestock in order to create shortage 

What is AAA, Agricultural Adjustment Act

500

Gave workers the right to form labor unions & practice collective bargaining 

What is the National Labor Relations Act

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