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New Deal
Dust Bowl
3 R's
Miscellaneous
100
Shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago
What is Memorial Day Massacre of 1937
100
Book that John Steinbeck wrote about the Dust Bowl
What is The Grapes of Wrath
100
What are the three R's
What is Relief, recovery, reform
100
Authorized the Shipping Board to sell some 1,500 WWI-era ships to private shippers
What is Merchant Marine Act
200
Founder of Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO)
What is John L Lewis
200
The length of the dust bowl
What is 8 years
200
act that permitted the sale of beer and wine with an alcohol content of less than 3.2% by volume
What is Beer and Wine revenue Act
200
Number of nations that supported Kellogg-Briand Pact
What is 62
300
Guaranteed the right of unions to organize and to collectively bargain with management
What is Wagner Act
300
Name three states that was affected by the Dust Bowl
What is Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas
300
act that allowed a plan that would close down insolvent banks and reorganize and reopen those banks strong enough to survive.
What is unemployment Relief Act
300
Passed exempting farmer cooperatives from antitrust laws
What is Capper-Volstead Act
400
Set up minimum wage and maximum hours standards and forbidding children under the age of sixteen from working
What is Fair Labor Standards Act
400
Made possible suspension of mortgage foreclosure for five years
What is Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act
400
Allowed the Federal Reserve to regulate interest rates in savings accounts
What is Glass-Steagall Act
400
The day that stock market crashed
What is October 29, 1929
500
The year Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) broke away from AF of L
What is 1938
500
Designed to encourage the breakup of the tribes and promote the assimilation of Indians into American Society
What is Dawes Act of 1887
500
Authorized the President to regulate industry and permit cartels and monopolies in an attempt to stimulate economic recovery
What is National Industrial Recovery Act
500
Town named after Herbert Hoover
What is Hoovervilles