The New Deal
The Dust Bowl
Vocabulary
Entertainment
People/Places
100
The name of the collection of programs that helped the economy.
What is the New Deal?
100
Where the Dust Bowl was located.
What is the Great Plains?
100
A long period without rain.
What is a drought?
100
The popular form of entertainment with make believe characters.
What is a comic book?
100
President that put the New Deal into action.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
200
The program that provides the elderly with a monthly payment and is still in effect today.
What is Social Security?
200
The dust bowl was caused by this.
What is a drought?
200
A rapid rise in prices.
What is inflation?
200
The two common characters that the comic books were about.
What is Superman and Batman?
200
The "eyes and ears" of Franklin Roosevelt.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
The program that set up camp for more than 2 million unemployed men between the ages of 18-25 that received housing, food, and $30 a month.
What is Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
300
The day of the worst dust storm is known as this.
What is "Black Sunday"?
300
Workers that traveled from place to place to find work.
What is a migrant worker?
300
A new form of movie theater that emerged during the 1930s.
What is a drive-in?
300
Famous photographer that took many pictures of people during the Great Depression depicting their lives during that time.
Who is Dorthea Lange?
400
The 3 goals of the New Deal.
What is relief, recovery, reform?
400
People who lived in these areas had to pack up and leave and they were known as this.
What is a migrant worker?
400
The place where dust storms occured frequently has been named this.
What is Dust Bowl?
400
Popular board game that was played frequently where players had to own and sell land.
What is Monopoly?
400
Novelist who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath".
Who is John Steinback?
500
The program that employed more than 8 million people to build roads, bridges, schools, parks, and airports.
What is Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
500
Explain why their were dust storms.
What is (possible answer) the drought caused the soil to turn to dust and high winds blew the dust around causing "dust storms".
500
The program that pays the elderly a monthly payment.
What is Social Security?
500
The fairs that were large displays of the latest technologies. They took place in Chicago, Ill. and Queens, NY.
What is World's Fair?
500
The places where the World's Fair took place (2).
Where is Chicago and Queens?
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