FDR
FDR was also related to this prior president
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
Name of the huts and shelters people would live in during the depression. Often made of scraps and carboard.
What are Hooverville's.
This program provided unemployment, retirement and aid to single mothers.
What is Social Security?
Name of the region primarily affected by the Dust Bowl
What is the Great Plains Region
These businesses only employed Union workers.
What are closed shops.
Name of the radio shows FDR would host every Sunday
what are the Fireside chats?
Name of the Day the Stock market crashed in 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
This program provided jobs and electricity in the Tennessee Valley area
Term used to describes migrants who left the Dust bowl area and headed West
What are "Okies"
Coalition of Americans who sought to challenge the new Deal during FDR's second term as president.
Who are the American Liberty League
What is the name of FDR's wife?
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt
Name of the group of Veterans who protested to get their pension early.
What is the Bonus Army
This New Deal program payed farmers to produce less crops
What is AAA or the Agricultural Adjustment Administration
One of the main causes of the Dust bowl and the Great Depression, also created an overabundance of crops
What is Overproduction
This amendment reversed the 18th amendment and allowed the sale of Alcohol to be legal again
What is the 21st Amendment
Intense period of legislation during the start of FDR's first election
What are "Hundred Days"
Government program that was passed by Hoover that gave relief to the banks, railroads, and Insurance companies
What is the RFC, or Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
This act allowed the formation of Unions and protected worker strikes
What is the Wagner Act
Farm auctions during the Great depression where neighbors bet very low on each others foreclosed lands so the owners could by them back.
What are Penny Auctions
This tax was enacted by the Hoover Administration and sought to fix the economy through taxing imports
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
What is the disease that affected FDR?
What is Polio
Measure of Average stock prices of major industries
What is the DOW Jones Industrial Average
This program employed 2.5 million young men in America, focusing on Conservation of forests and work in the National and State parks.
What is the CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps
Many people moved to which states or direction to find farming jobs during the Dust bowl?
What is West, or California, Oregon, Washington
What percent of Americans were Unemployed during the Great Depression?
What is 25%