The Great Crash
The name of day the stock market crashed.
What is Black Tuesday?
Hired young men to plant trees, build bridges, and develop new parks.
What is the CCC or Civilian Conservation corps?
The three main ideas of the New Deal.
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
Served as FDR's "eyes and ears"
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Lots of people plowed millions of acres with tractors.
What is the Great Plow-Up?
The period of economic troubles following the crash.
What is the Great Depression?
Put the jobless to work making clothes, building hospitals, schools, parks, playgrounds, and airports.
What is the WPA or Works Progress Administration?
A union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract.
What is collective bargaining?
First female cabinet member. Sec. of Labor.
Who is Frances Perkins?
April 14, 1935, the day the whole sky became pitch dark, and a silence fell.
What is Black Sunday?
The name of shacks where the homeless lived.
What are "Hoovervilles"?
Has the slogan "We do our part."
What is the NRA or National Recovery Administration?
The economic experts the advised FDR.
What is the Braintrust?
Used calvary, tanks, machine guns, and tear gas to clear out veterans
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
States that became known as the Dust Bowl.
What is Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado?
Additional sum of money.
What is a bonus?
Paid farmers not to grow certain crops.
What is the AAA or Agricultural Adjustment Act?
A famous line said by FDR in his speech.
What is "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Or
What is "Action and Action now!"
Sang the song "Nobody knows you when you're down and out".
Who is Bessie Smith?
Date the rain stopped.
What is the Summer of 1931?
A Hoover established corporation that loaned money to banks, railroads, and insurance companies to help them stay in business.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, RFC.?
Regulated stock market and other Wall Street practices.
What is the SEC or Securities and Exchange Commission?
Positions that FDR and TR both held.
What is 1-President. 2-Assistant Sec. to the Navy. 3-Governor of New York.
The father of soil conservation
Who is Hugh Bennett?
The amount farmers were paid to practice soil conservation.
What is a $1.45 a day?