U.S Government
Farm Life in the 30s
Racial Discrimination
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
He was elected as President in 1933 and also proposed The New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
A program created in 1937 under the Department of Agriculture, helped with rural rehabilitation, farm loans, and subsistence homestead programs.
What is the Farm Security Administration (FSA)?
100
These laws were written to separate blacks/whites in public areas. Also meant that African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
100
A system that provides a regular payment made during a person's retirement for many Americans that are at age 65 and older.
What is Social Security?
100
John Steinbeck highlights the plights of migrant farm families in this book that was published in 1939.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
200
This event is said to have "set the scene" for The Great Depression.
What is The Wall Street Crash of 1929?
200
People who rent a plot of land from another person, and farm it in exchange for a part of the crop.
What are sharecroppers?
200
A racist clan formed in the 1860s that terrorized minorities for more that a century in the U.S.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
These allowed the homeless and unemployed to get food for free.
What are soup kitchens?
200
This board game became very popular during The Great Depression.
What is Monopoly?
300
This man was president when The Great Depression began.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US. Caused by severe droughts and failure to apply dry land farming methods to prevent wind erosion.
What is The Dust Bowl?
300
A clan that originated in Georgia. The members carried signs that said things such as "No jobs for Negros until every white man has a job".
What are the "Black Shirts"?
300
When the government spends more money than it collects in taxes.
What is deficit spending?
300
These things became widely used during The Great Depression because buttons were too expensive.
What are zippers?
400
This act increased U.S taxes which, in turn, decreased international trade and helped spread The Great Depression worldwide.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930?
400
A United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
400
A public outbreak of violence between 2 racial groups in a community.
What is a race riot?
400
A person who moves from place to place to get work.
What is a migrant worker?
400
These were shantytowns built by homeless people during The Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
500
This corporation was created in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by The Great Depression.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
This act established the Soil Conservation Service, sought to “control floods, prevent impairment of reservoirs and maintain the accessibility of rivers and harbors, protect public health, public lands and relieve unemployment.”
What is the Soil Conservation Service (SCS)?
500
to kill someone, especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
What is lynching?
500
The group of advisers to Franklin Roosevelt during his presidential administration.
What is the Brain Trust?
500
This was the nickname given to newspapers that the homeless used as blankets.
What is a Hoover Blanket?
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