Causes
Effects
Presidents
New Deal
Society
100
October 29, 1929 also goes by this name
What is Black Tuesday
100
Farmers from Oklahoma whose crops failed and who moved west were known as this
What are Okies
100
He was president when the stock market crashed.
Who is Herbert Hoover
100
This is a New Deal program that offers monthly pensions to the elderly, provides assistance to the disabled, and supports poor children
What is Social Security
100
The major form of communication in the 1930s
What is radio
200
The name for the severe drought in the 1930s
What is the Dust Bowl
200
An indication of mistrust in the president, people used this name to refer to shantytowns made up of hastily constructed shelters
What is a Hooverville
200
This First Lady served as the president's "legs," and filled him in on domestic policy.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt
200
The efforts of young men enrolled in this program created many parks, and attempted to improve the environment
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
200
Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz are two of these from the 1930s
What are films
300
A bank failure, specifically caused by investors rushing to withdraw all their money out of fear
What is a bank run
300
This group of WWI veterans gathered at the capital, only to be violently turned away
What is the Bonus Army
300
This public works project designed to provide water and electricity to the American Southwest bears this president's name.
What is the Hoover Dam
300
This government agency insures bank deposits
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
300
The title of John Steinbeck's book about the grim realities of life in the Depression
What is Grapes of Wrath
400
This act ensured a 1929 style crash, the result of a runaway and inflated stock market, would never happen again
What is the Federal Securities Act
400
This astounding number represents the highest average unemployment rate during the Great Depression
What is 25%
400
**DAILY DOUBLE!** Herbert Hoover relied on the "laissez-faire" economic policy laid out in his book, The Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith
400
This New Deal program was responsible for creating most new jobs and putting the largest number of people to work.
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)
400
This radio broadcast caused unnecessary panic as Americans believed its story about a Martian invasion to be true
What is Orson Welles "War of the Worlds"
500
President Hoover did this in late 1929 and early 1930 to aid the recently devastated American economy
What is nothing
500
Escapism from life in the Depression took the form of listening to radio programs, watching films, and playing games like this one
What is Monopoly
500
This is the name for FDR's radio talks.
What are "fireside chats"
500
This New Deal program still exists, though not as a government agency
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority
500
This man painted "American Gothic"
Who is Grant Wood
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