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Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover
Dust Bowl
Alphabet Soup
1930s Cultural Elements
100
This took place in 1929 and is considered the start of the Great Depression since many people lost all of their money in it
What is the Stock Market Crash
100


Who was the president during the middle  of the Great Depression?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

100

What was the cause of the farm income to dropped by 50% and left more than 750,000 farmers without land during the great depression.

What is the Dust Bowl 

100
This the agency which helped stop the flooding in the Tennessee Valley. ___ ____ A
What is the TVA
100

What were some activities Americans did to help forget about the troubles during the 1930s?

What are the movies, watching sports, listening to new music and reading books.

200

What was the name of the plan  created to help improve the economy

The "New Deal"

200

This President thought that by doing nothing the economy would get better because the economy goes up then down then back up

What is Herbert Hoover

200

What happened to the lands or soil in the Great Plains?

What is suffering from severe droughts. 

200
This Agency paid farmers NOT to grow their crops in order to raise the price of crops. This doubled the prices of Crops before being declared unconstitutional in 1936. ___ ____ A
What is AAA
200

Who is the African American Jazz musician known for developing a new kind of music referred to as "Swing"

Who is Duke Ellington 

300
What happened to the United States banks after the stock market crash?
The banks ran out of money. (They gave out IOU's instead)
300

What would you call  cardboard houses or shacks? 

What is a Hooverville

300

What mostly likely happened to a farmers tractors, land and crops durning the Dust Bowl?

The crops and tractors were buried and the land or soil became unsuitable for growing more crops.

300
This Act in 1935 provided (and still provides today) money for people after they have retired.
What is Social Security
300

Who was the author that wrote one of the most popular novels of all times in the 1930s?

Who is Margaret Mitchell 

400

What was  the name or phrase that refers to the start/ first day of the Stock Market Crash?

What is Black Tuesday

400

Who were the people who liked Franklin Delano Roosevelt

What is poor and unemployed

400

What is the state that most farmers and their families moved to make a new start on life due to the Dust Bowls?

What is California 

400
This agency build public airports, sewers, roads, schools, and other buildings. It spent over 10.5 Billion dollars and employed 3.8 Million men. W ____ ____.
What is the WPA
400

Who was the African American known for upsetting Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games?

Who is Jesse Owens 

500


What caused the great Depression?


Answers may vary 

500

What would people call empty pockets?

What is Hoover Flags 

500

What are some States the suffered the most from the Dust Bowls?

What is Oklahoma and Kansas ( or others).

500
This group of men ages 18 - 26 learned forestry skills t help improve our national forest and national parks during the 1930's. ___ ____ C.
What is the CCC
500

What was the name of the main character in the novel "Gone With the Wind" that most Americans were able to make a personal connection with?

Scarlett O'Hara's