Now it's personal!
Shanty towns were also known as this, deriding the president at the beginning of the Great Depression
What are "Hoovervilles?"
This department created work to raise employment rates, and is the subject of a satirical song by Louis Armstrong and the Mill Bros.
What is the WPA? (Works Progress Administration)
What FDR stands for
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
The names of the fateful days that together make the "crash of '29"
What are "Black Thursday and Black Tuesday?"
This department provided jobs developing National Parks and other similar public recreational projects
What is the CCC? (Civilian Conservation Corps)
This was FDR's political platform which indicated a change of circumstances for the American people
What is the "New Deal?"
These brothers invented the first successful airplane
Who are Orville and Wilber Wright?
An epidemic in the 1920s with a high death-rate
What is the Spanish Influenza?
This department was created to administrate prices and other economic factors and was found to be unconstitutional, corrupt, and unfeasible
What is the RFC? (Reconstruction Finance Corporation)
These popular radio shows made FDR feel near to the people and went a long way to improving public opinion
What are FDR's "Fireside Chats?"
This 6 foot tall woman would destroy bars with a hatchet as part of her protest against alcohol
Who is Carrie Nation?
This man invented the assembly line, and increased efficiency so much in his factories, that his Model T could be purchased at $295
Who is Henry Ford?
In response to opposition to his policies, FDR signed the Social Security Act, Wagner Act, and Revenue Act of 1935. This flurry of actions was known as _____
What is FDR's "Second Hundred Days / Second New Deal"
Shortly after his re-election, FDR tried to do this because he was afraid of his agencies being declared unconstitutional.
Pack the courts (increase the Supreme Court Justice number from 9 to 16)
This woman promoted eugenics and founded the group which would eventually be called "Planned Parenthood"
Who is Margaret Sanger?
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
FDR's group of informal advisors were known as this
What is "Brain Trust?"
Another of FDR's attempts to increase his power, this act sought to restructure the checks and balances for his branch of government
What is the Executive Reorganization Act?
This infamous gangster of the prohibition was also known as Scarface
Who is Al Capone?
the numbers of the Constitutional Amendments which began AND ended the Prohibition
What are Amendment 18 and 21?