Roosevelt
Hoover
Depression
Effects & Alphabet Soup
Second New Deal
100
Roosevelt responded to the Great Depression by enacting this sweeping reform jprogram in his first 100 days in office.
What is the New Deal?
100
Herbert Hoover was a member of this political party who favored big business.
What is Republican Party?
100
Working for bigger landowners rather than for themselves.
What are tenant farmers?
100

Supported Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition, and membership in it was open to African Americans.

What is CIO?

100
It established minimum wage, 44 hour work week, and outlawed child labor.
What is Fair Labor Standards Act?
200
Roosevelt used the radio to convince many people to support his controversial policies in what is now famously known as this
What are the fireside chats?
200

American singer, songwriter, and activist who is considered a Depression-era icon and one of the most influential figures in American folk music. He wrote over 3,000 songs, including the world-famous protest song “This Land Is Your Land”.

Who is Woodie Guthrie?

200
The general name for Dust Bowl rufugees.
Who are Okies?
200
Built dams to control floods, and generate electricity.
What is Tennessee Valley Authority? (TVA)
200
It recongized the right of employees to join labor unions and gave workers the right to collective bargaining.
What is the Wagner Act?
300
Roosevelt eyes and ears around the nation.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300

Hover's reaction to the Great Depression was limited to this, which bailed out the banks, railroads, and insurance companies.

What is Reconstruction Finance Corporation? (RFC)

300
When local, state, and federal governments encourage or coerce Mexican immigrats and their naturalized children to return to Mexico.
What is repatriation?
300
Created to provide income for the Old aged, unemployed, poverty stricken, and disabled.
What is Social Security Act?
300
It loaned money to electric utilities to build power lines, bringing electricityto isolated rural areas.
What is Rural Electrification Authority? (REA)
400
Roosevelt contracted this disease, which affected his legs.
What is polio?
400

The longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms.

Who is FDR?

400

The name of the movie studio that would become popular during the 30s

What is Hollywood?

400
New Deal program that provided young men with relief jobs on environmental conservation projects, reforestation, and flood control.
What is Civilian Conservation Corps?(CCC)
400
Roosevelt's attempt to add justices to the Supreme Court.
What is court packing?
500
This amendment was enacted because Roosevelt won four terms as president.
What is 22nd Amendment?
500
Money poured into the top of the economic pyramid will trickle down to the base.
What is trickle-down economics?
500

Name of the book by Steinbeck that depicts life during the Great Depression

What is The Grapes of Wrath?
500

An American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects

What is WPA?

500
Roosevelt's call of the "best and brightest" to meet with him and become his advisers.
What is Brain Trust?
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