The Great Depression
New Deal Agencies
FDR
Miscellaneous
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What event in 1929 was one cause of the Great Depression?

1929 Stock Market Crash

100

What does AAA stand for?

Agricultural Adjustment Act

100

What does FDR stand for?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

100

Who won the election of 1932?

FDR

200
What were Hoovervilles?

Shanty towns set up as a response to homelessness during the Great Depression

200

What does TVA stand for?

Tennessee Valley Authority

200

What type of background did FDR have?

Wealthy and well-educated

200

What were FDR's main goals of the New Deal?

Relief, recovery, reform

300

How many Americans were unemployed at the peak of the Great Depression?

13 million

300

What did employees of the Civil Conservation Corps do?

Reforestation, road construction, soil conservation, and flood control

300

Who was FDR's wife?

Eleanor Roosevelt

300

What is court packing?

Adding justices to a court to shift its ideological balance

400

How would Coolidge have responded to the Great Depression?

By not involving the government

400

What did the Works Progress Administration do?

Employed 8 million people on public works projects

400

What were the fireside chats?

A series of evening radio broadcasts from FDR to the American people to explain government actions.

400

Which groups were part of the Democratic coalition in 1936?

Southerners, ethnic northerners, western farmers, African Americans

500

How did Hoover respond to the Great Depression?

Selective government involvement; not providing relief to individuals directly

500

What did the Social Security Act do?

Established unemployment compensation and old age insurance

500

How was FDR different than Coolidge and Hoover?

FDR was a Democrat, he did not feel limited by restraints on federal/executive power, his programs provided relief directly to individuals, his presidency was longer, etc.

500

Who was Huey Long?

A governor of LA and later senator from LA who criticized FDR's New Deal from the left.