New Deal Legislations
People
Vocabulary
The Dust Bowl
The New Deal
100

Program that built dams to control flooding and produce cheap electric power.

What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
100
Ran against FDR in the 1945 election and lost.

Who is Governor Alfred Landon?

100

People who stayed in Oklahoma and Kansas during the Dust Bowl.

What are Okies and Arkies?

100

The year the Dust Bowl began. 

What is 1930?

100

A Southern based society formed by Senator Huey Long of Louisiana. 

What is The Share-the-Wealth movement. 

200

Paid farmers not to grow crops.

What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?

200
Proposed old age pensions for people after retirement.

Who is Dr. Francis Townsend?

200

Shacks where the homeless lived and were also blamed on Herbert Hoover.

What are Hoovervilles?

200

Year the Dust Bowl ended. 

What is 1936?

200
Guaranteed workers the right to collective bargaining. 

What is the National Labor Relations Act?

300

Built large projects such as the Grand Coulee Dam.

What is the Public Works Administration?

300

A critic of FDR's who was know as the Radio Man and called the New Deal a waste of money.

Who is Father Charles Coughlin?

300

Government practice of spending more than it takes in from taxes.

What is deficit spending?
300

The area where the Dust Bowl occurred.

What is the Central Great Plains?

300

The law that set up a pension program for American citizens. 

What is the Social Security Act? 

400

Hired young men to work in parks and forests.

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps.

400

A critic of FDR's who thought he should give money to the poor.

Who is Senator Huey Long?

400

Group of black leaders who unofficially advised FDR concerning the situations of African Americans.

What is the Black Cabinet?

400
The impact of the Dust Bowl on American farmers. 

What is ruined farmland, farmhouses, and farmers became migrant workers?

400

These were made up of wealthy industrials and corporation lawyers. 

What is the Liberty League? 

500

Insured bank deposits if a bank failed.

What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corps?
500

Decided whether or not to keep the New Deal legislation.

Who is Judge Owen Roberts?

500

A stamp on products that represent the National Recovery Administration.

What is the Blue Eagle?

500

States that were involved in the Dust Bowl. 

What is Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arkansas?

500

These were held by Dr. Francis Townsend which developed a plan that would pay everyone over sixty years of age a pension. 

What are Townsend Clubs?