What is the agency that paid farmers for not planting crops in order to reduce surpluses, increase demand for seven major farm commodities, and raise prices?
Agricultural Adjustment Act
100
Who is the President that created the New Deal?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
100
What is the device that gained popularity for entertainment during the Great Depression and was commonly used by FDR for his Fireside Chats?
The Radio
100
When was the Stock Market Crash?
October 29, 1929
100
Who did James J. Braddock fight to win the World Heavyweight Championship?
Max Baer
200
What is the agency that built twenty dams to control flooding, generates hydroelectrical power, increases agricultural production, and revitalize the region?
Tennessee Valley Authority
200
Who is the president that was blamed for the start of the Depression?
Herbert Hoover
200
What was the novel written by Margaret Mitchell that depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's "March to the Sea"?
Gone With the Wind
200
When was President Roosevelt elected?
1932
200
Who was the "Brown Bomber"?
Joe Louis
300
What is the agency that lasted until 1943 and employed at least 8.5 million people at an average of $2 a day. They built thousands of roads, bridges, schools, post offices and other public construction projects?
Works Progress Administration
300
Who was the author of The Jungle, a 1906 muckraking assault on the unsanitary and inhumane conditions in the meatpacking industry?
Upton Sinclair
300
What was the novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a young and mysterious millionaire and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan?
The Great Gatsby
300
When was the Dust Bowl?
The 1930's
300
Who was the best team of the 1930s, winning five World Series titles?
New York Yankees
400
What is the agency that established a national pension fund for retired persons, an unemployment insurance system, and public assistance programs for dependent mothers, children, and the physically disabled?
Social Security Administration
400
Who was the charismatic Louisiana politician who served as both Governor and U.S. Senator in the early 1930s and was assassinated inside the Louisiana statehouse in 1935?
Huey P. Long
400
What was the devise that had been introduced to the public at the 1939 New York World's Fair but was not widely used until the 1950's?
Television
400
What year was Social Security enacted in the U.S?
1935
400
Who was the African-American Olympiad who won four gold medals and debunked Adolf Hitler's theory of the Aryan race's athletic superiority?
Jesse Owens
500
What is the agency that protected about 30,000 farmers who made their main living growing potatoes, and who feared that the potato market would be invaded by other farmers whose land became idle by other AAA controls?
The Potato Control Law
500
Who was the family comedy act consisting of five brothers who performed on Broadway and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949?
Marx Brothers
500
What was the novel written by John Steinbeck that focuses on a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries?
The Grapes of Wrath
500
What year was Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany ?