The name of FDR's radio communication with the public
What is Fireside Chat
100
Put young men aged 18 to 25 to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil-erosion and flood-control projects
What is Civilian Conservation Corps
100
This was used by many Americans in the 1920s to buy luxury goods
What is Credit or Installment Plans
100
This negative economic factor rose up to around 25% at the height of the Depression.
What is Unemployment
100
Government uses more money than it receives in revenue
What is Deficit Spending
200
FDR's plan to gain Supreme Court approval for New Deal programs
What is Court Packing Bill
200
Employed 8 million people to carry out public projects, including the construction of buildings and roads. Employed musicians, artists, writers, actors, and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literary projects.
What is Works Progress Administration
200
The date of Black Tuesday
What is Oct. 29, 1929
200
Groups of shacks sprang up due to evictions. Give both names for these shacks.
What is Shantytowns, Hoovervilles
200
Two reasons for the passage of the 21st Amendment
What is Prohibition was ineffective, high crime rate, government wanted tax revenue
300
Hoover's reaction to the stock market crash
What is laissez faire policies, hands-off government approach
300
Provided old-age insurance for retirees 65 or older, unemployment compensation, and aid to families with dependent children and the disabled.
What is Social Security Act
300
Buying on the margin and ______________ were two stock market practices that increased the devastating effects of the stock market crash.
What is Speculation
300
Many people left _____ ________ (it's a region) and traveled to _________ due to the Dust Bowl.
What is Great Plains, California
300
Two causes of the Dust Bowl
What is Drought, Overuse of the land
400
The name of FDR's wife, and the reason that she was popular
What is Eleanor Roosevelt, she became a symbol of social justice as she traveled the country and advocated for the poor
400
Renovated five existing dams and constructed 20 new ones, created thousands of jobs, and provided flood control and waterpower
What is Tennessee Valley Authority
400
The name of a 1930 tax on foreign manufactured and agricultural products
What is Hawley-Smoot Tariff
400
The most important political effect of the Great Depression
What is Expanded power of the federal government and presidency
400
1. Author of The Grapes of Wrath
2. Photographer who captured the "Migrant Mother"
What is 1. John Steinbeck 2. Dorothea Lange
500
The three parts of FDR's plan to fight the Great Depression
What is 1. Relief for the needy 2. Economic recovery 3. Financial reform
500
Continues to reassure millions of people that their money is safe in American banks.
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
500
This agency failed to prevent a collapse of the banking system, and its policies contracted (decreased) the money supply nationwide
What is Federal Reserve
500
Describe the constituency of the Democratic Coalition after the Great Depression. Include three people groups.
What is Comprised of African Americans, immigrants, Catholics, Jews, organized labor, and Southern whites
500
Established codes of fair practice for individual industries. Declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.