What is the trial of a Tennessee teacher for teaching evolution in his classroom.
100
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
What is when the government gave subsidies to farmers and also aided them in recovering from the drought.
100
How was Teddy Roosevelt and FDR related?
What is his 5th cousin.
100
How did immigration laws change during the Red Scare?
Quotas were created to limit the number of immigrants who were coming in to the country from Eastern and Southern Europe.
100
What is the Great Depression?
What is the period lasting from 1929-1940, in which the U.S economy was in severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed.
200
When was Black Tuesday?
What is the day the Stock Market Crashed ( October 29,1929)
200
What is the NLRA?
What is the National Labor Relations Board! It was an organization that helped to prevent bad labor and business practices.
200
What was the disease that struck FDR when he was 39?
What is Polio
200
Why did the KKK resurge during this time period? Who were their targets?
The KKK had a resurgence due to the fear of communism and mistrust of immigrants. The KKK would not only target blacks again , but now they would target Jews, Catholics, and immigrants.
200
What were the two ways people received food during the Great Depression?
What is soup kitchens and bread lines.
300
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
Who is the guy who flew the first non stop flight across the Atlantic.
300
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
What is the group that helped give jobs to the unemployed and unmarried men.
300
What was his first lady's name? How did she aid him during his presidency?
What is Eleanor Roosevelt. She would travel all over the world acting as an ambassador for him. Then she would report back to him about everything she saw.
300
What was Henry Ford's contribution to the 1920's ?
What is he built the first functioning automobile. His assembly line helped him to mass produce his Model T.
300
What was the Works Progress Administration?
What is an agency established as a part of the second New Deal, that provided the unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, art, and other fields.
400
What is FDR's full name
What is Franklin Delano Roosevelt
400
What is the NIRA?
What is National Industrial Recovery Act. It helped to prevent business failure.
400
How long did FDR serve?
What is 1933-1945
400
Who were two African Americans who flourished during the Harlem Renaissance?
What is Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington.
400
Who was President during the onset of the Great Depression?
What is Herbert Hoover
500
What is fundamentalism?
What is Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all stories and details from the bible are literally true.
500
What is the FDIC?
It insured banks in order to prevent people from withdrawing money in a panic.
500
What act that FDR attempted to pass was seen as very sketchy?
What is when he tried to add more justices to the supreme court to gain support for his reform programs.
500
What were the Palmer Raids?
What is The raids against those who were accused to be communists. Many were arrested without formal charges and forced to sign their signatures to confessions.
500
Why was the 1920's direct cause of the Great Depression in the 1930's?
What is People bought on credit, investing recklessly , and installment plans were all direct causes of financial ruin in the Depression. Also over production of product and note enough buyers led to the Depression as well.