The Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Miscellaneous
Alphabet Soup
200

This event took place in 1929 and is considered the start of the Great Depression since many people lost a lot of money

What is the Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)

200
What was the name of his plan he created to help improve the economy
What is the "New Deal"
200

A severe drought that withered crops as well as brought terrible sand storms

What is The Dust Bowl

200

This is the agency which helped stop the flooding and brought back electrical power in Tennessee

What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

400

This President thought that by doing nothing the economy would get better because the economy goes up then down then back up

Who is Herbert Hoover

400

What were the 3 R's of FDR's reform policy?

Relief, Recovery, Reform

400

Farm lands in this part of the country were destroyed by drought during the Great Depression

What is The Midwest

400

This Agency paid farmers NOT to grow their crops in order to raise the price of crops. This doubled the prices of Crops during the Great Depression

What is Agriculture Adjustment Administration(AAA)

600

New idea/invention of the 1920s that enabled people to spend money they did not have.

What is credit

600
What is the name of the disease that kept FDR in a wheelchair most of the time
What is Polio
600

Places people went to get food if they couldn't afford any

Soup Kitchens

600
This Act in 1935 provided (and still provides today) money for people after they have retired.
What is Social Security
800

Villages made up of scrap metal and old wood that the poor and needy lived in

Hoovervilles

800

What was the name of his radio broadcasts where he spoke to all America like they were simply his friends

What are Fireside Chats

800

This group of World War 1 veterans marched on Washington DC demanding the money they were promised. Hoover turned them away

What is The Bonus Army

800

This agency built public airports, sewers, roads, schools, bridges, and many buildings. It spent over 10.5 Billion dollars and employed 3.8 Million men.

What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)

1000

The location(s) many Americans rush to right away on Black Tuesday or in the couple of days after

What are banks

1000

FDR is the only president to serve for this long

3 terms (12 years)

1000

What percentage of American adults were unemployed?

25%

1000

This group of men ages 18 - 26 learned forestry skills to help improve our national forest and national parks during the 1930's. 

What is the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)

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