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The Presidents
Alphabet Soup
Crash and Burn
The Supreme Court
Depressing Art
100
This president was very popular when he was elected in 1928, but by 1932...not so much.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
This program's job was to regulate the stock market and prevent another crash like the one in '29.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
100
This is the name given to the day of the massive drop in the stock market in October, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
In his "court packing" scheme, FDR wanted to expand the number of Supreme Court Justices from 9 to this number.
What is 13?
100
Dorothea Lange worked for the government creating works of this kind of art, using migrant workers in the west as her subjects.
What is photography?
200
These were large settlements of homeless people built during the early great depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
200
This agency was developed as a safety net to protect against bank failures. It insures savings accounts for up to $250,000.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
200
Stock investors buying on margin only had to pay this amount.
What is 10%
200
In United States vs. Butler, the court struck down this New Deal program that gave farmers subsidies to grow certain products.
What is the AAA?
200
John Steinbeck wrote this, the most famous and significant novel to come out of the Great Depression.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
300
In the summer of 1932, Herbert Hoover sent the current army toward a group of WWI veterans who were protesting, and were known as this.
What is the Bonus Army?
300
This agency employed 2.5 million young men to plant trees, clean up streams and rivers, and perform other environmental tasks.
What is The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
300
This is the acronym for the total amount of goods and services produced by a country in a givin period of time.
What is GNP?
300
This case marked the turning point, when the Supreme Court began to support FDR and the New Deal.
What is West Coast Hotel Co. vs. Parrish?
300
The main character in The Grapes of Wrath, this man has inspired songs by Woodie Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, and Rage Against the Machine.
Who is Tom Joad?
400
FDR probably had this disease, which left him paralyzed from the waist down.
What is polio?
400
This program gave subsidies to farmers to grow certain crops and NOT grow others. It was later struck down by the Supreme Court.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
400
This is the name of the central bank of the United States, responsible for regulating the money supply.
What is The Federal Reserve?
400
Schechter vs. United States struck down part of the NIRA that regulated the minimum price for this product.
What is chicken?
400
This man wrote songs showing the plight of the underdog including "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti," "Dusty Ole' Dust," and "The Ballad of Tom Joad."
Who is Woodie Guthrie?
500
Translate all three of these: Hoover Blankets, Hoover Hogs, Hoover Flags.
What are newspapers, rabbits, and pockets turned inside out?
500
This program began and completed many construction projects on public buildings, including the Grand Coulee Dam and the Lincoln Tunnel.
What is The Public Works Administration (PWA)?
500
Known as the "Bull of the Bulls," this man founded General Motors...then lost everything when the market crashed.
Who is William C. Durant?
500
This justice got nervous after FDR tried to pack the court, and decided to begin supporting the New Deal.
Who is Owen Roberts?
500
It's the name of the picture seen here, one of the most famous of the depression era.
What is "Migrant Mother?"