WWII Beginnings
Great Depression & New Deal
APUSH Grab Bag
100
December 7, the date that will live in infamy, resulted in the death of over 2000 Americans and the destruction 8 battleships at this location.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
At the height of the Great Depression, this was the unemployment rate of the United States.
What is 25%?
100
The teddy bear was named after this rugged President.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
200
He was the prime minister of London and besties with FDR.
Who is Winston Churchill?
200
The most popular New Deal Program, it employed over 3 million unmarried men to work on environmental projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
200
This amendment allowed for the direct election of senators by citizens.
What is the 17th Amendment?
300
While trying to maintain neutrality, FDR used this policy, which asked allies to pay in cash and use their own vessels if buying war materials.
What is "cash and carry"?
300
This was the nickname of the shantytowns in major cities during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
300
Senator and frequent presidential candidate Henry Clay is perhaps best known for this plan to help the American economy, which included an infrastructure bill, new tariff, and charter for a Second National Bank.
What is the American System?
400
Ahead of Pearl Harbor, Churchill and Roosevelt signed this agreement, stating that they were not seeking territorial expansion after war.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
400
This was one of the New Deal programs that changed the "face" of the United States through infrastructure, murals, public parks, etc.
What is the Public Works Administration or Works Progress Administration?
400
He claimed that the American frontier was closed, forcing America to look outward.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
500
This final wartime policy allowed American allies to directly lease war materials and vessels.
What is the Lend Lease Act?
500
"Redlining" or racial discrimination in city planning was born out of this New Deal agency.
What is the Federal Housing Administration.
500
Settlers who were eager to expand the Oregon Territory into British Canada rallied around this slogan.
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