The drought-stricken plains areas from which hundreds of thousands of "Okies" were driven during the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
New Deal program that financed old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and other forms of income assistance.
What is Social Security?
100
Roosevelt's scheme for gaining Supreme Court approval of New Deal legislation.
What is court packing?
100
FDR's reform-minded intellectual advisors, who conceived much of the New Deal legislation.
What is the Brain Trust?
100
Term used by FDR in 1932 acceptance speech that came to describe his whole reform program.
What is the New Deal?
200
Presidential wife who became an effective lobbyist for the poor during the New Deal.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
200
The special session of Congress in early 1933 that passed vast quantities of Roosevelt-initiated legislation.
What is the Hundred Days Congress?
200
Depression shantytowns, named after the president who many blamed for their financial distress.
What are Hoovervilles?
200
The early New Deal agency that worked to solve the problems of unemployment and conservation by employing youth in reforestation and other socially beneficial tasks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
200
Roosevelt-declared closing of all U.S. financial institutions on March 6-10, 1933, in order to stop panic and prepare reforms.
What is the banking holiday?
300
Agreement emerging from the Washington Disarmament Conference that reduced naval strength and established a ratio of warships among the major shipbuilding powers.
What is the Five Power Naval Treaty?
300
Toothless international agreement of 1928 that pledged nations to outlaw war.
What is the Kellogg Briand Pact?
300
Naval oil reserve in Wyoming that gave its name to one of the major Harding administration scandals.
What is Teapot Dome?
300
Large federal employment program, established in 1935 under Harry Hopkins, that provided jobs in areaas from road building to art.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
300
Tight-lipped Vermonter who promoted frugality and pro-business policies during his presidency.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
400
New Deal agency established to provide a public watchdog against deception and fraud in stock trading.
What is the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
400
New Deal farm agency that attempted to raise prices by paying farmers to reduce their production of crops and animals.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?
400
Encampment of unemployed veterans who were driven out of Washington by General Douglas MacArthur's forces in 1932.
What is the Bonus Expeditionary Force?
400
Sky-high tariff bill of 1930 that deepened the depression and caused international financial chaos.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
400
Farm proposal of the 1920s, passed by Congress but vetoed by Coolidge, that provided for the federal government to buy farm surpluses and sell them abroad.
What is the McNary-Haugen Bill?
500
New Deal agency that aroused strong conservative criticism by producing low-cost electrical power in competition with private utilities.
What is the Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA)?
500
The new union group that organized large numbers of unskilled workers with the help of the Wagner Act and the National Labor Relations Board.
What is the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO)?
500
Widely displayed symbol of the National Recovery Administration (NRA), which attempted to reorganize and reform U.S. industry.
What is the blue eagle?
500
Supreme Court justice whose "switch in time" to support New Deal legislation helped undercut FDR's court-packing scheme.
Who is Justice Roberts?
500
Law of 1939 that prevented federal officials from engaging in campaign activites or using federal relief for political purposes.