Attempted to raise crop prices by paying Farmers to leave a certain amount of their land unplanted, lowering production.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act
100
Federal corporation established to construct Dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley region to generate electricity as well as to prevent floods.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority
100
FDR got this disease in Canada
What is polio
100
A place where free or low cost food is served to the needy.
What is a Soup Kitchen
200
To provide aid to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and families with dependent children.
What is the Social Security Act
200
Put young unemployed men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in erosion control and flood control projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps
200
FDR died while:
-Writing a letter
-Writing a book
-Painting a picture
-Getting his portrait painted
Getting his portrait painted
200
Neighborhood in which people live in makeshift shacks.
What is a Shantytown
300
Insured loans for building and repairing homes
What is the Federal Housing Authority
300
To protect workers rights after the Supreme Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional.
What is The National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
300
What does the "D" in FDR stand for?
Delano
300
The region including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms during the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl
400
Law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to protect individual bank accounts.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act
400
Required Corporations to provide complete, accurate information on all stock offerings.
What is the Federal Securities Act
400
Where did FDR go to college?
Harvard
400
The name for young/teen boys who rode freight trains across country in search of work.
What is "Wild Boys" or "Hoover Tourists"
500
Provided unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, the arts, and other fields of work.
What is the Works Progress Administration
500
Established codes of fair competition for business'
What is the National Recovery Administration
500
How old was FDR when he began his political career
-27
-36
-45
-54
27
500
Paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.