Key Terms
Key Playas
The Depression
The Dust Bowl
The New Deal
100
This was Herbert Hoover's last ditch effort to reverse the trends of the Great Depression.
What is the Emergency Relief Construction Act?
100
These are the thousands of ruined farmers that made the journey from the drought stricken areas to California.
Who are Okies?
100
The Great Depression took place in this decade.
What are the 1930's?
100
The high school that Mr. Raudensky graduated from.
What is Annville-Cleona?
100
This is how FDR addressed the public during his years in office.
What is a fireside chat?
200
Relief, Reform and Recovery
What are the three "R's" of the New Deal?
200
This president initiated the New Deal as his domestic policy.
Who is FDR?
200
This was one of results of the Great Depression.
What were WWII/Adolf Hitler, Relief programs, Political change?
200
Because of the Dust Bowl, the 1930's were also known as this.
What are the "dirty thirties"?
200
This policy focused on maintaining good a good relationship with Latin American countries.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
300
A reduction in the money supply.
What is deflation?
300
He was the Republican president in office at the start of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
This is the year that the stock market crashed, effectively starting the Great Depression.
What is 1929?
300
This is the area of the country that the Dust Bowl took place.
What is the midwest?
300
FDR sent vast amounts of aid to this country prior to the United States entering WWII.
What is Great Britain?
400
FDR's plan to add new justices who were more inclined to support his legislation.
What is court packing?
400
He was the 33rd president of the United States and followed FDR.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
400
The day we refer to when the stock market crashed to begin the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
400
This was a cause of the Dust Bowl.
What is poor crop rotation, high winds, and severe drought?
400
The disorder that landed FDR in a wheelchair while in office.
What is poliomyelitis (polio)?
500
Shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
500
She was the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
500
This act in 1930 placed large taxes on imported goods. It unintentionally helped to crush the economy.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?
500
Where most of the dirt ended up from the Dust Bowl.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
500
This court case deemed the National Recovery Act (NRA) to be unconstitutional.
What is Schechter Poultry Corp. vs. US?
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