This is a program that enlisted young men in order to build roads, restore historic monuments and other projects that would help protect the environment from 1933-1942. It's goal was to provide relief to people who no longer had jobs.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
100
This was caused by many bankers and investors spending money that they didn't actually have to invest in real estate and other programs.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
100
He was the 31st President of the United States who was a Republican who promised everyone a "Chicken in Every Pot and a Car in every Garage."
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
This beloved 32nd President believed in Direct Government Intervention and was the only President to be elected for four terms.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
100
The day when the stock market collapsed on October 24, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
200
This is a federal insurance program that provides benefits to retired people and those who are unemployed or disabled. The goal of this program was to provide reform for people who had lost money.
What is Social Security?
200
This system of payment was used by many major commercial stores and contributed to the stock market crash and The Great Depression.
What is installment buying?
200
Hoover believed in this system of economics which called for no government intervention in business and capitalism.
What is Laissez Faire?
200
This disease affected FDR's spine and constrained him to a wheelchair.
What is Polio?
300
In his first hundred days of Presidency FDR, created this in order to inspect the "unscrupulous money changers", and "money exchangers" for four days.
What is a Bank Holiday?
300
This was caused by technological advancements, unsustainable government policies in agriculture and the overfarming of land.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
There was towns made of shacks and "lean-to's" where people had to move into during the Great Depression when they lost their houses.
What is a Hooverville?
300
FDR had these in order to calm people down and let them know the plans he was enforcing in the government.
What are Fireside Chats?
300
One of the three R's. It is assistance, especially in the form of food, clothing, or money, given to those in special need or difficulty.
What is relief?
400
This was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land. Its purpose was to recovery to the economy.
What is Agricultural Adjustment Act?
400
This happened when there were too many products being sold and not enough people buying them.
What is Deflation?
400
Hoover, came to power in this decade before the Great Depression was a decade of unprecedented economic growth.
What is The Roaring 20's?
400
was a prime New Deal agency created FDR. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.
What is National Recovery Administration?
400
One of the three R's. It means to make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.
What is reform?
500
These are the three goals of the New Deal. The three goals together were known as the three R's.
What is relief, recovery, and reform?
500
FDR's original reason for closing banks, was because when the stock markets collapsed many people did this which caused the economy to crash.
What is withdraw all of their money from the banks?
500
When citizens asked for direct government intervention, Hoover instead told the people that they should rely on these two things.
What is the Local Government and the charity of the people?
500
FDR was accused of believing in this system of government which controls the market and production of goods.
What is socialism?
500
One of the three R's. This means to return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.