This "quiet and reserved" president won the election of 1928, and would end up being the man to face the beginning of the Great Depression head on (not actually though).
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
The day that the stock market crashed.
What is Black Tuesday or Tuesday October 29th, 1929?
100
This nickname refers to the many policies, often acquiring an acronym for a name, FDR passed.
What is alphabet soup?
100
This mini-subculture made up of mostly men lived in the streets and traveled in search of food and work.
What are hoboes?
100
This act, while seeming a bit counterproductive, was designed to boost crop prices by lowering the supply.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
200
Another name for a shantyown, a direct put-down to the president at the time.
What is a Hooverville?
200
An agreement where consumers "buy" a product under the promise of later paying for it.
What is credit?
200
Herbert Hoover's only project that made a measurable, positive difference in fighting the Great Depression.
What is the Boulder Dam or Hoover Dam?
200
These lines of people waiting to receive hand outs of food became a common sight during TGD.
What are bread lines?
200
This act established the FDIC that ensured people's money in the bank up to a certain amount.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act.
300
In 1937, President Roosevelt proposed this bill to allow him to appoint six new Supreme Court justices do that he could protect the New Deal.
What is the "court-packing bill"?
300
This record high tariff was designed to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition, but it did the opposite.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?
300
Herbert Hoover was opposed to this kind of help, giving resources straight to individuals rather than having them work their way down.
What is the direct relief?
300
These young teenagers spent their days riding the rails of freight trains due to school closings and feeling as though they were only a burden upon their families.
Who are wild boys?
300
This act required that companies present information about a stock and held them liable for trickery or misrepresentation.
What is the Federal Securities Act?
400
This organization, aimed against FDR, believed that the New Deal violated respect of the rights of individuals and poverty.
What is the American Liberty League?
400
"The rich got richer, and the poor got poorer."
What is uneven distribution of wealth?
400
This bill would have given the Bonus Army the bonus they so desperately needed.
What is the Patman Bill?
400
These states make up the Dust Bowl.
What are Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado?
400
Through the CCC (Civilian Conservation Core) men would work and this amount of their pay would be sent home to their families.
How much is $25?
500
Herbert Hoover's performance as president caused the next congressional elections to be dominated by this party.
What is the Democratic Party?
500
These two key industries that had been in high demand during war time suffered the most due to a sudden lack of demand.
What is mining and lumbering?
500
This corporation, backed by Hoover, was supposed to help money trickle down from big businesses to everyday people.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)?
500
For these groups, conditions were especially bad since their unemployment rates were among the highest and their wages among the lowest.
Who are African Americans and Latinos (minorities)?
500
The Civil Works Administration provided 4 million immediate jobs by building this many schools across the nation.