Alphabet Soup
Alphabet Soup 2
Causes of the depression
Important People
Miscellaneous
100
This new deal relief measure paid farmers not to farm.
What is the Agricultural Adjusment Act
100
This act provided money to the elderly, children, and disabled.
What is Social Security
100
A way to buy stocks where the purchaser only pays a percentage of the price and borrows the rest
What is buying on a margin
100
Person in charge of the FERA, then later the WPA
Who is Harry Hopkins
100
Relief, recovery, reform
What were Roosevelt's 3 R's
200
This New Deal Reform provided up to $5000 insurance on deposits made in banks
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
200
This reform established a minimum wage at 25 cents and prohibited labor for those under the age of 18.
What is the Fail Labor Standards Act, FLSA
200
Term used to describe producing too many goods in WWI
What is over production
200
First lady who greatly expanded the role of the president's wife
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt
200
President who opposed giving people free money because he said it took pride and desire to work
Who is Herbert Hoover
300
The New Deal program constructed dams, created jobs, helped control flooding, and provided cheap power.
What is the Tennesse Valley Authority, TVA.
300
This program provided $5 billion to build roads, schools, write music and books, paint paintings, etc.
What is Works Progress Administration
300
Risky practice used by many in the stock market where teh buy cheap stock hoping to pay it off
What is speculation
300
African American woman who advised FDR on matters important to minorities. Was also a teacher.
Who is Mary Bethune
300
Wrote the novel "Grapes of Wrath" that showed the lives of Oakies moving to California
Who is John Steinbeck
400
This program paid men 18-25 $30 a month to build roads, schools, and plant trees, etc.
What is the Civilian Conservationo Corps, CCC
400
This recovery act provided electricity to rural areas of the US
What is the Rural Electrification Administration, REA
400
All the money was in the hands of the wealthy and the poor had very little money to spend
What is uneven distribution of wealth
400
Mexican American artist/muralist employed by the WPA to paint murals portraying dignity of American working
Who is Diego Rivera
400
Most significant long term effect of all the New Deal reforms and legislation
What is expanded role of the federal government
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