Cash & Coins
This President is on the penny and the $5 bill.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This "Great" 1930s event saw 25% unemployment and the failure of thousands of banks.
What is the Great Depression?
If a President disagrees with a spending bill passed by Congress, they use this constitutional power to reject it.
What is a Veto?
This 9-letter word describes a general increase in prices and a fall in the purchasing value of money.
What is Inflation?
This President's face is found on the Dime, largely because of his work with the "March of Dimes."
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This $10 Founding Father started the first National Bank (and has a hit musical).
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The 2008 "Great Recession" was primarily caused by a "bubble" in this specific industry.
What is the Housing Market?
This President’s "New Deal" created programs like the CCC and WPA to put people back to work during the Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This is a tax placed specifically on goods imported from other countries.
What is a Tariff?
Before 1964, US quarters and dimes were primarily made out of this precious metal.
What is Silver?
This President is on the $20 bill, but might be replaced by Harriet Tubman.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
In the 1970s, many Americans faced long lines at the pump due to a massive shortage of this resource.
What is Gasoline (or Oil)?
This President famously promised "Read my lips: no new taxes," but later had to raise them to fix the budget.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
This 3-letter acronym represents the total value of all goods and services produced within a country in a year.
What is GDP?
This is the only President in US history to ever pay off the national debt in its entirety.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This President is on the $1 bill and the Quarter.
Who is George Washington?
This occurs when a President and Congress spend more money in a year than the government actually collects in taxes.
What is a Deficit?
This President's economics focused on cutting taxes for businesses to encourage growth in the 1980s.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This powerful organization, often called "The Fed," acts as the central bank of the United States.
What is the Federal Reserve?
This President was the first to have his face put on a circulating US coin in 1909.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The $100 bill features this man, who was a scientist but never President.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This 1930 Tariff Act, signed by Herbert Hoover, backfired by causing global trade to drop by 67%.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
In 1971, this President officially ended the "Gold Standard," making the US dollar a "fiat" currency.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This is the economic term for a period of at least six consecutive months of economic decline.
What is a Recession?
While the President appoints them, this is the official title of the person who leads the Federal Reserve.
What is the Chair of the Federal Reserve?