FDR
How many terms did FDR serve for?
What is 4 terms?
1. What did the Agricultural Adjustment Administration do?
What is paying farmers to grow less crops?
1. What is overproduction?
What is more goods being produced than being bought, causing prices to fall.
1. What movie was released during the G.D. that starred Judy Garland?
What is the Wizard of Oz?
1. Which critic of the New Deal believed it didn't do enough for the regular people, and believed in shared wealth?
Who was Huey Long?
2. What disease did FDR contract as a boy?
What is Polio?
2. What is the bank holiday?
What is closing banks to allow them to recover and restoring civilian confidence in them
2. What is unemployment?
What is low prices meant low wages or lay offs, meaning people without jobs have no income, making them unable to pay their bills, resulting in house foreclosures, resulting in homelessness.
2. Which president did most Americans blame all their troubles on?
Who was Herbert Hoover?
2. Which critic of the New Deal believed in a banking conspiracy?
2. Father Charles Coughlin?
3. What was FDR's plan to add extra Supreme Court justices?
What is the Court Packing Scheme?
3. What is the SSA?
What is the Social Security Administration? What is an administration that helps the elderly, unemployed, orphaned, or disabled?
3. What is Installment Buying and Buying on Credit/Margin
What is borrowing money to pay for something and paying it back in monthly payments?
3. What is the name of a radio broadcast that was frequently believed to be true, causing terror?
What is War of the Worlds?
3. Which critic of the New Deal believed it didn't do enough for the elderly, and is the one whose ideas were adapted into the SSA?
Who was Dr. Townsend?
4. What role did FDR serve in before getting the presidency?
What is NYS Governor?
4. Which administrations created jobs for both skilled and unskilled workers in many different fields?
What is the WPA and the PWA?
4. What was Lack of Gov’t Aid?
What is a hands-off government?
4. Name a defining Great Depression book and what it described.
What was the Grapes of Wrath? What was a book that described the hardships of migrant workers in California?
4. Who was the first female cabinet member, appointed by FDR?
Who was Frances Perkin?
5. What did FDR mean when he said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?
What is if nothing is done, nothing gets better?
5. Which act was found unconstitutional and had to be passed again under the Wagner Act?
What is the National Industry Recovery Administration? What is the National Recovery Administration?
5. What is Wealth Inequality?
What is the rich became richer, poor became poorer! (Kerr-ism)
5. Which famous black singer did First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt allow to sing at the Lincoln Memorial when she was denied the right to perform elsewhere?
Who was Marian Anderson?
5. What was the name for the cabinet of A.A.'s that FDR brought in to address the concerns of the A.A.'s? What was the name of the people who helped write the New Deal?
What is the Black Cabinet? What is the Brain Trust?