Hoover As President
The Hard Times
The Great Crash
The New Deal
The Second New Deal
100
What were Hoovervilles?
What is Makeshift towns made for hoboes.
100
What were the makeshift towns set up outside the capital and who lived in them?
What is Hoovervilles and Hoboes.
100
Between 1922 and 1928 what was the name for the total value of goods and services produced in a nation during a specific period.
What is gross national product (GNP)
100
What were some things that Roosevelt promised during his campaign in 1932?
What is more public works programs and relief for the poor.
100
What did CIO stand for?
What is Congress of Industrial Organization.
200
What was the name of the assiduous president that was censured during the Great Depression?
What is Herbert C. Hoover.
200
What were the arid Midwest states known as?
What is The Dust Bowl
200
The american stock market performed spectaculary during what years?
What is the 1920s. jazz and prohibiton were also during this time.
200
The resolution of the banking crisis was just the beginning of a critical period of government activity known as what?
What is The Hundred Days.
200
In what year did the U.S. Suffer another setback?
What is 1937
300
What Project promoted by Herbert Hoover was approved to collaborate with people who needed jobs? Hint: Harnessed the Colorado River.
What is The Hoover Dam.
300
What were the benevolent people of the dust bowl who migrated to safer states known as?
What is Okies.
300
The worst day for the stock market on Tuesday, October 29th is known as what?
What is Black Tuesday.
300
In what year did the new deal end?
What is 1938
300
What provided pension for those older than 65?
What is Social Security.
400
What was the name of the Tariff that raised the price of imported goods?
What is Smoot-Hawley Tariff act.
400
What were many Americans nightmares that involved the bank at this time?
What is foreclosure and bankruptcy.
400
By 1933 how many banks had shut their doors due to the great crash?
What is 5,000 banks.
400
At the end of the 1930s how many people were still unemployed?
What is 10 million
400
What corporation provided jobs to those in need?
What is The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp)
500
What was the corporation that approved the compromise that raised 2 billon dollars in direct government loans for struggling banks?
What is The Reconstruction Finance Corp.
500
What was the main causes of dust storms in the dust bowl states?
What is drought
500
what is it called when you borrow money from a stock brocker to buy stocks?
What is buying on margine.
500
What were the three R's?
What is Relief, Recovery and Reform
500
What is it called when workers sit at their factory of work all day and night until conflict is resolved?
What is Sit down/required strike.
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