What is the day that the stock market crashed in the United States?
100
Photographer and photo journalist who took pictures of people during the Great Depression and "humanized" the faces of the Great Depression
Who was Dorothea Lange
100
The New Deal organization that employed young men and had them build public works projects all over the nation
What was the Civilian Conservation Corp
100
President Roosevelt's plan to solve the Great Depression
What was the New Deal
100
The two main crops that were being grown in North Carolina in the 1920's and were hurting rather than helping the state's economy
What were tobacco and cotton
200
This is when people buy way too many stocks that are at a higher price then their actual value
What is over-speculation of stocks
200
President of the United States from 1928-1932 who is usually blamed for making the Great Depression worse
Who was Herbert Hoover
200
The New Deal Act that was passed to give an income to people who were retired
What was the Social Security Act (SSA)
200
The 3 "R"'s that FDR focused on to help solve the Great Depression
What was Relief, Recovery, Reform
200
This is where pieces of companies are bought and sold
What is the stock market
300
The area of the mid-west where farmers over worked the land by growing too many crops and droughts made the situation worse
What is the Dust Bowl
300
The president of the United States from 1932-1945. He bought the United States a "New Deal"
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt
300
The New Deal agency that was created to give states money to help the poor immediately (Relief)
What was the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
300
The attempt by FDR to add 6 new Supreme Court justices, this plan did not work
What was the "court packing scheme."
300
A famous African-American educator, this woman became an adviser to the president.
Who was Mary McLeod Bethune
400
This is when a person only pays a little toward the purchase of stock and borrows the rest of the money to purchase the stock.
What is buying on margin
400
World War I veterans who marched on Washington D.C. demanding to be paid the pensions that they were promised after the War
Who was the Bonus Army
400
The New Deal Act that brought electricity to thousands of people in rural areas like North Carolina
What was the Rural Electrification Act (REA)
400
Roosevelt's group of experts who helped come up with the ideas for many of the New Deal agencies
What was the "Brain Trust"
400
This is money paid to people who are out of work
What is unemployment insurance
500
The economic system which states that the government should stay out of the affairs of business, "let it be"
What is Laissez-Faire
500
Governor of Louisiana who spoke out against FDR. He did not think that the President had done enough to divide the wealth in the U.S. among everybody
Who was Huey Long
500
The New Deal agency that was created to bring flood control, conservation and electricity to people along the Tennessee River. This still exists today.
What is Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
500
The two military men who were sent into the Bonus Army camps with orders to get the veterans to leave.
Who were Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower
500
The New Deal agency that still exists today. It makes sure that if a bank fails, the depositors will get their money back (up to $200,000)
What is the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation (FDIC)