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100
Name of the photographer whose work will forever by linked to the 1930s images of the depression.
Who is Dorthea Lange
100
Nickname for October 29, 1929, the day on which the Great Crash of the stock market began.
What is Black Tuesday
100
Name of practice by which investors purchased stock for only a fraction of its price, borrowing the rest.
What is buying-on-margin
100
Publicly run system that provides regular payments to elderly, ill, and disabled who cannot support themselves.
What is social security
100
Economists use what calculation of the total value of goods and sevices produced annually by a country to judge its wealth.
What is Gross National Product
200
Name of the general in charge of the U.S. troops sent to oust this unruly mob in Washington, D.C.
Who is MacArthur
200
Name of the group of WW I veterans who came to Washington, D.C. in 1932 seeking pension money promised to them at retirement.
What is Bonus Army
200
Nickname for the makeshift shelters of the homeless during the early years of the Great Depression.
What is Hoovervilles
200
The 3 R's of this plan
What is Relief, Recovery, Reform
200
Number of the Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1933, which ended Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment
300
Louisiana governor and U.S. Senator planned to establish a "share the wealth"
Who is Huey Long
300
The dates for the era of "The Great Depression"
What is 1929-1941
300
Leaders who manipulate people with half-truths, deceptive promises, and scare tactics.
What is demogauges
300
One of the two programs that was later found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
What is NRA or AAA
300
Highest import tax in U.S. history, passed by Congress in 1930.
What is Hawley-Smoot tariff
400
First lady, this woman championed the cause of civil rights during the 1930s.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt
400
Severe economic decline that lasted from 1929-1941
What is The Great Depression
400
Term used to define the period of legislative activity launched by FDR after 1935.
What is The Second New Deal
400
A long-term consequence (negative legacy) of FDR's efforts to end the Great Depression that are government has not got out of.
What is defict spending
400
Term describes a region in the Great Plains that had a period of drought and dust storms during much of the 1930s.
What is Dust Bowl
500
Kidnapping and murder of his infant son in 1932 was called the "crime of the century".
Who is Charles Lindbergh
500
Collapse of the stock market is known as.
What is the Great Crash
500
Period of time at the start of FDR's presidency in 1933
What is First Hundred Days
500
One legislative action taken in the 1930s that is still a functioning governmental bank program today (a positive legacy).
What is FDIC
500
Finally got the U.S. out of the Great Depression
What is World War II