Causes of the Great Depression
Period of economic decline and high unemployment from 1929 to 1941.
What is the Great Depression?
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, & Colorado were given this nickname because of storms that rolled across the plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Won the presidency in 1932 and implemented the first New Deal
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
Unofficial group of African American advisers to President Roosevelt
What is the Black Cabinet?
Played Ken in the 2023 box office hit "Barbie"
Who is Ryan Gosling?
This group of people faced difficult economic times in the 1920s
What are farmers?
Makeshift shantytowns for people who lost their homes in the depression were called this
What are Hoobervilles?
Organization that built dams in the Tennessee River valley to control floods and generate electric power
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
The New Deal Coalition that gave this party a majority in both houses of Congress
What is the Democratic Party?
Day Star Wars fans celebrate “National Star Wars Day"
What is May 4?
Political party of all Presidents elected during the 1920s
What is the Republican Party?
Turned the soil to dust on the Great Plains
What is severe drought OR over-farming?
Goals of the first New Deal
What are relief, recover, and reform?
The first female Cabinet member
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
This star of "Oppenheimer" played a 1900's Birmingham, England mob boss in the Netflix series "Peaky Blinders"
Who is Cillian Murphy?
President, elected in 1928, who was in office when the stock market crashed
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Places families line up for food handouts during the Great Depression
What are bread lines?
New Deal agency created to insure bank deposits
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
Amendment that limited the President to 2 consecutive terms of office after FDR had served 4
What is the 22nd Amendment?
Name of the fungal infection that caused a global pandemic in the TV series "The Last of Us"
What is Cordyceps?
Cause of the stock market crash in 1929
What is excessive stock speculation?
Minority group was hit the hardest by the depression
What are African-Americans?
The strongest criticism from individuals with roots in the Populist movement towards the New Deal
What is lack of help provided to citizens?
Act restored tribal control of American Indian lands
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
Name of Prince Harry's memoir published in January
What is "Spare"?