What was so great about it?
People
The Market and Banks
Hope this program helps (New Deal)
This and That
100
What decade did the Depression occur in?
the 1930s
100
I believe in deficit spending to get a country out of a depression and convinced Franklin to do it!
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
100
This was created to insure deposits in banks
What is the FDIC?
100
This program helped farmers by raising prices for crops. The government often paid them not to plant.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
100
When the government spends more than it receives in income.
What is deficit spending?
200
An area on the edge of a city in which people lived in makeshift houses.
What are shantytowns or Hoovervilles?
200
Thanks Eleanor for convincing your hubby to give me a job.
Who is Frances Perkins?
200
Risky investing in the market in hopes of making a quick profit.
What is speculation?
200
This was created to regulate the stock market.
What is the SEC? The Securities and Exchange Commission.
200
The Great Plains area that suffered from overproduction and a severe drought in the 1930s
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
October 29th, 1929
What is Black Tuesday?
300
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
Borrowing money to buy stocks.
What is buying on margin?
300
Massive jobs creation program that put millions of men to work.
What is the Works Project Administration?
300
This happened to U.S. Gross Domestic Product and the unemployment rate during the Great Depression.
What is GDP went down and the unemployment rate went up?
400
Name for men and boys who rode the rails looking for work.
What are hoboes?
400
Who is FDR?
400
FDR got on the radio to explain to the American people how banks work to prevent more panic runs. These talks became known as ...
What are fireside chats?
400
What were the three R's of the New Deal program.
What is relief, recovery and reform?
400
This novel described the struggles of living in the Dust Bowl and the migration of many of those folks to California to look for work.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
500
World War I veterans who marched on Washington.
What is the Bonus Army?
500
Aliens are attacking Earth!
Who is Orson Welles?
500
A stock index of the NYSE's top 30 companies.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
500
This provides retirement income for elderly people.
What is social security?
500
List these presidents in order of their presidency.
FDR, Harding, Hoover
What is Harding, Hoover, FDR?