Precious metal for which the American dollar was once representative of.
What is gold?
100
Failed administration that would eventually bring us farm subsidies.
What is the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)?
100
One of FDR's first acts as President was to declare this for the banks.
What is a bank holiday?
100
The D. in Franklin D. Roosevelt stands for this - his mother's maiden name.
What is Delano?
200
This term refers the practice of stock holders who were tipped with special information into selling stock right before it started to fall in price. (Martha Steward went to jail for this).
What is insider trading?
200
The acronym for the agency that monitored mortgages.
What is "FHA?"
200
The names of the four U.S. Presidents on Mount Rushmore.
Who are Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt.
200
FDR's famous President uncle that "walked softly and carried a big stick."
Who was Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.
200
The full name of the much maligned President who preceeded Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
300
Named for the day of the week it happened - this is a common name for the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
What is "Black Tuesday?"
300
Would eventually become the more popular AmeriCorps - this was the original acronym.
What is the "CCC?"
300
The now common practice by farmers that may have prevented the Dust Bowl from happening.
What is crop rotation?
300
The common name for Roosevelt's frequent radio addresses to the American People.
What are "Fireside Chats?"
300
One of the most important acts of the New Deal, this still provides money for retirees, the disabled, widows, and orphans (and every other industrialized country had one in the early 19th century except the U.S.)
What is Social Security?
400
Another possible cause of the Great Depression - this was a common term for when everyone took all of their money (and gold) out of the bank.
What is "bank runs?"
400
The long form of the agency that insures bank deposits.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
400
Joe Lewis defeated this German boxer to symbolically defeat the Aryan race.
Who was Max Schmeling?
400
FDR was frequently seen in a wheelchair because of this now rare and preventable disease.
What is polio?
400
Created by the National Recovery Act - this was the amount per hour of the first minimum wage.
What is 25 cents?
500
Named for two Congressmen, this isolationist and protectionist tariff may have help cause the Great Depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
500
The Act that created the National Labor Relations Board, called the National Labor Relations Act was also known by this name: after the Congressmen that authored the bill.
What is the Wagner Act?
500
The name of the brilliant (and ruthless) engineer who designed and built the Hoover Dam.
What is Francis "Frank" Crowe?
500
The common term for Roosevelt's plan to fill the Supreme Court with like-minded Justices.
What is "court-packing?"
500
Commissioner of Indian Affairs for Roosevelt he was one of the first Federal champions of Native American rights.