Herbert Hoover
What is President?
This weekday lives in infamy as the day when stock values plummeted.
What is Black Tuesday?
FDR first won a presidential election in this year.
What is 1932?
This law regulated agriculture to help farmers.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
This person wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
Who is John Steinbeck?
This is was Hoover's solution to the Great Depression.
What is doing nothing?
The mass closures of these institutions led to many people losing their money and property.
What are banks?
FDR ran against this man in his first presidential election.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This law regulated banks in order to keep them failing again.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
This person wrote songs about the Dust Bowl, including the album Dust Bowl Ballads.
Who is Woody Guthrie?
This was the event where World War 1 veterans went to Washington D.C to get their promised bonuses.
What was the Bonus Army Incident?
This is what it is called when a large part of the workforce has no job.
What is unemployment (high unemployment)?
This was FDR's plan to fix the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This law gave protections to unions.
What is the Wagner Act?
A large drought that happened in the Great Plains during the Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This dam located on the Colorado River in Nevada is Hoover's greatest accomplishment.
What is the Hoover Dam?
This is when people borrow money to buy stock on the stock market.
What is buying on margin?
These were FDR's weekly radio broadcasts to the American public.
What are Fireside Chats?
This law created a new tax that would be used to care for the elderly, disabled, and unemployed.
What is the Social Security Act?
This event made the Dust Bowl significantly worse.
These shanty towns where homeless people lived were named after Herbert Hoover.
What are Hoovervilles?
This war played a significant role in the Great Depression occurring.
What is World War I?
These are the three R's of FDR's New Deal.
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
Laws like the Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, and Tennessee Valley Authority provided unemployed Americans with these.
What are jobs/employment?
This was the destination of many workers driven out of the Great Plains by the Dust Bowl.
What is California?