Show:
Crash
New Deal
Roosevelt
Dust Bowl
Whatever Man
100
Paying for a small part of the stock cost, hoping to pay the rest from the stocks profit
What is Buying on Margin?
100
The radio broadcasts that FDR used to calm the nation during the Great Depression
What is Fireside Chats?
100
The year that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected
What is 1932?
100
The area affected by the Dust Bowl?
What is From North Dakota, south to Texas or something similar including all or parts of: Texas, OK, AK, CO, SD, ND, etc.
100
People listened to the President talk on this
What is the Radio?
200
The name given to the day the stock market crashed
What is Black Tuesday?
200
Created jobs and electricity in the South Eastern part of the country
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
200
This disease made FDR incapable of walking
What is Polio?
200
A state NOT affected by the Dust Bowl storms
What is various states
200
When workers showed up for work but refused to do their jobs, instead they simply sat and did nothing
What is a sit down strike.
300
The normal up and down pattern of a nation's economy
What is The Business Cycle?
300
Used taxes to provide financial support for retired workers
What is the Social Security Act?
300
The name of FDR's plan to bring America out of teh Great Depression
What is The New Deal?
300
The name given to farmers who left the Dust Bowl looking for work in California
What is Okies or Arkies?
300
The group of WW I veterans who demanded their WW I bonus money early
What is the Bonus Army?
400
A stock market with many months of rising prices
What is a Bull Market?
400
Put young men to work dong outdoor work such as creating parks and building roads
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
400
FDR's wife
What is Eleanor
400
Long periods without rain
What is a drought?
400
These provided an escape for people who were burdened by the Great Depression
What is Movies, songs, literature or plays
500
The shanty towns built by the homeless during the Great Depression
What were Hoovervilles?
500
Guaranteed that people would not lose their money if banks went out of business
What is the Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation?
500
FDR's plan to create a Supreme Court that would no longer declare his New Deal programs unconstitutional
What is Packing the Court, or Court Packing?
500
This carried away topsoil from the mid west, as far away as New York City
What is wind?
500
The largest engineering project during the Great Depression
What is the Hoover Dam?