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Vocabulary
About FDR
The Great Depression
People
100

What repealed Prohibition in 1933?

What is the 21st Amendment

100

Government program to help the needy

What is the relief program

100

What illness was FDR struck with that caused him to be crippled?

What is Polio

100

Who was the President when the Depression started?

Who is Herbert Hoover

100

Who is the President that got us out of the Depression?

Who is President Franklin Roosevelt


200

Regulated bank transactions in credit, currency, foreign exchange. Banks must have more money than creditors can pull out to reopen

What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act

200

Government practice of spending more than it takes in from taxes

What is deficit spending

200

What party did Franklin Roosevelt represent?

What is the Democratic Party

200

The area of the United States that was affected by drought and tornadoes that caused many farmers to become poor

What is the Dust Bowl

200

Was Roosevelt's far cousin who he ended up marrying 

Who is Eleanor Roosevelt

300

This National Park was created by men who were part of the Civilian Conservation Corps

What is the Shenandoah National Park 

300

veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment of a World War I bonus

What is the bonus army

300

Served as this during World War 1

What is the assistant Secretary of the Navy

300

What is a cause of The Great Depression?

- Overproduction- wages did not keep up with prices, so buying falls off

- Durable goods- products designed to last for years. Demand decreases

- Weakness in banking system- risky loans, money supply decreases

300

Was ordered to get rid of the bonus Army by President Hoover because they were protesting

Who is General Douglas MacArthur

400

This act helped farmers by paying them to not grow certain crops

What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act

400

series of laws passed in the 1930s that gave Native American nations greater control over their own affairs

What is the Indian New Deal

400

Made announcements and spoke to Americans by using this common household item

What is the Radio

400

The nickname of the group of college professors  who were in Roosevelt's cabinet

What is the Brain Trust

400

The First women to hold a Cabinet Post

Who is Frances Perkins

500

It protected bank deposits up to $5,000. Today the amount is $100,000

What is the Federal deposit insurance corporation 

500

group of black leaders who unofficially advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the situation of African Americans

What is the Black Cabinet

500

What were the three R's that Roosevelt tried to do in the New Deal

Relief, Recovery Reform

500

What was the percentage of people who were unemployed during the depression

What is 25%

500

Was a severe critic of Roosevelt who was from Louisiana. He believed the New Deal didn't help the poor enough

Who is Huey Long

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