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He was the producer and actor known for his radio broadcast of War of the Worlds and for the movie Citizen Kane.
Who is Orson Welles?
This is the term that described the harsh conditions that arose in the Midwestern states during the long-term drought of the mid-1930's
What is the Dust Bowl?
This is the New Deal program that established old-age insurance and disability aid for the needy.
What is social security?
The was the term for the first three months of FDR's term in 1933 when the Democratic-controlled Congress passed numerous New Deal laws.
What is the Hundred Days?
This was the original name of the major impoundment built on the Colorado River during the Hoover Administration in order to stimulate the economies of western states
What is the Boulder Dam?
He was the artist who created the iconic painting, American Gothic.
Who is Grant Wood?
This was the nickname given to the shantytowns that grew outside American cities during the Great Depression.
What is Hoovervilles?
This was the New Deal agency created to regulate banking activities and to protect peoples savings in the event of banks failures.
What is the FDIC?
This was the term for October 29th, 1929 -the day the stock market crashed, marking the symbolic end of the prosperity of the 1920's
What is Black Tuesday?
He was the Democratic candidate for president who lost to Herbert Hoover in the election of 1928.
Who is Al Smith?
He was the 1930's folk singer who wrote This Land is Your Land.
Who is Woody Guthrie?
This term refers to buying stocks and bonds, hoping for a quick profit, while ignoring the risks.
What is speculation?
This was the New Deal program that utilized unskilled workers to construct public buildings and infrastructure projects in American towns.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
This is the renowned book written by John Steinbeck that focused on the plight of a downtrodden Oklahoma farming family during the Great Depression.
What is the Grapes of Wrath?
She was the photographer whose powerful images captured the plight of ordinary Americans during the Great Depression.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
She was the black singer who, in reaction to Washington D.C.'s segregation laws, performed a powerful concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Who is Marian Anderson?
This term refers to cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor.
What is direct relief?
This was the New Deal law that shut down banks so their records could be examined by the government to see if they were solvent.
What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act?
These were the weekly radio broadcasts given by FDR in which he explained the government's approach to the nation's economic problems in easy-to-understand and reassuring language.
What are fireside chats?
This 1930 tax on imports was intended to protect American manufacturers, but actually ended up contributing to the global depression.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
He was the outspoken socialist-leaning Democratic senator from Louisiana nicknamed the "Kingfish."
Who is Huey Long?
This is the widely used measure of the stock market's performance based on 30 large firms trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
This was the New Deal law that sought to raise crop prices by encouraging farmers to lower production.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
This was FDR's ill-fated plan to increase the size of the Supreme Court in an attempt to eliminate its opposition to his New Deal programs.
What is the court-packing bill?
He was the British economist who promoted the controversial idea that governments can stimulate failing economies by going deeply into debt, a concept known as "deficit spending."
Who is John Maynard Keynes?