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100
He was called the "Great Humanitarian" for his relief work after WWI.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
He wrote the novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
Who is John Steinbeck?
100
Along with families and churches, these organizations provided relief to the poor before the government provided welfare programs.
What are local charities?
100
He was known for his "fireside chats" over the radio.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
100
This is the part of the country that experienced the drought known as the Dust Bowl.
What is the Great Plains?
200
This is what happened to private Red Cross contributions after Congress proposed a bill for government relief to Dust Bowl victims.
What is "they decreased?"
200
This amendment repealed prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
200
This legislation established a government fund for unemployment and old-age insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
200
She was the First Lady who became a delegate to the United Nations.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
200
These were men who abandoned their families to ride trains from town to town during the Great Depression.
What are "hobos?"
300
This is the name of President Roosevelt's big government spending and jobs program.
What is the New Deal?
300
She became the first woman to pilot an airplane across the Atlantic.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
300
Under this legislation, the government paid farmers not to plant crops or graze livestock on pasture land.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
300
This is the name of the British socialist economist who formulated the ideas on which President Roosevelt based his "tax and spend" program.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
300
This date is remembered as Black Tuesday.
What is October 29, 1929?
400
Unlike modern welfare, this program insisted that people work before they received government assistance money.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
400
This board game became popular in the 1930s.
What is Monopoly?
400
This program provided jobs such as reforestation and other soil and water conservation projects for young men.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
400
These are the types of threats that labor organizations used to force employers to bargain with the union.
What are violence and destruction of property?
400
This is the name FDR gave to his economic recovery program.
What is the New Deal?
500
In addition to soup kitchens and bread lines, these sprang up throughout the land to meet the needs of the poor.
What are shelters?
500
Margaret Mitchell's romantic novel that drew thousands to movie theaters as a color motion picture.
What is "Gone With the Wind?"
500
This was established to control flooding, conserve soil and bring hydroelectric power to the Mid-South.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
This phrase refers to FDR's tactic of appointing younger, more liberal justices to the Supreme Court to gain a New Deal majority.
What is "packing the court?"
500
This administration was established to control wages and prices, and to limit competition among businesses.
What is the National Recovery Administration?
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