This is the name for the "Great Crash" on October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday?
100
So many people lost their homes during the Hoover Administration, they developed this nickname for the shanty towns they inhabited.
What are "Hoovervilles"?
100
While he may have taken illegal kickbacks in his "Deduct Box" his "Share Our Wealth" program promised every American a guaranteed annual income
Who is Huey Long?
100
This relief organization provided jobs to young men working on outdoor projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
100
One result of the Great Depression was a rise in this social problem
What is homelessness?
200
This author chronicled the plight of Dust Bowl migrants in California in "The Grapes of Wrath"
Who is John Steinbeck?
200
Herbert Hoover's economic theory that favored businesses and avoided direct payments to people.
What is laissez-faire or "trickle down" economics?
200
His vision for old age pensions became Social Security
Who is Dr. Francis Townsend?
200
Capitalizing on the success of the Boulder (Hoover Dam), Roosevelt created this agency to provide electrical power to a region in the Southeast.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
200
Rather than raising awareness of the latest styles from JCrew, she used her stature as First Lady to highlight the extreme poverty in America.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
The causes of the Great Depression include consumer debt, unequal distribution of wealth and these two:
What is stock market speculation and overproduction/underconsumption of goods?
300
Just as Hoover was looking at losing the White House, he created this agency to help save homes.
What is the Federal Home Loan Bank Act?
300
Their advocacy for the needs of African-Americans led Roosevelt to carry the African-American vote in 1936, a first for a Democrat.
What is the Black Cabinet?
300
This construction program that also provided jobs to artists and writers was used to build a dormitory... called Tiger Stadium.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
300
When this law was passed, workers finally got the right to organize at work, strike and bargain collectively with their employers.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act.
400
These World War I veterans moved to shanty towns in Washington, DC to persuade Congress to provide them with pension payments.
What is the "Bonus Army"?
400
Hoover used this agency to provide aid to banks and businesses, believing the funds would "trickle down" to provide and retain jobs for people.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
400
This anti-semitic Catholic radio priest thought Roosevelt could do more for the people... including nationalize all the banks!
Who is Father Charles Coughlin?
400
Thanks to this New Deal reform, your bank deposits are guaranteed up to $250,000 today.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
400
Get paid not to work? Yes, this agency paid farmers to NOT farm their land or raise livestock in an attempt to raise prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
500
This event rendered the Great Plains' farmlands useless.
What is the Dust Bowl?
500
As top economic professors predicted, foreign trade plummeted after the passage of this
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
500
President Roosevelt introduced his "court packing" plan after the Supreme Court did this
What is declared the National Recovery Administration unconstitutional?
500
If you are part of a corporation that is traded in a stock market, this reform measure requires you to file annual reports about the financial health of the company?
What is the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)?
500
Starting in his first Hundred Days, President Roosevelt used these on the Radio to communicate with the American people?