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Abbreviations
Great Depression
Definitions
New Deal
Final Jeopardy
100
FDR
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
Herbert Hoover
Who was the president at the beginning of the Great Depression?
100
"Government watchdog"
What is the SEC or Securities Exchange C omission?
100
President and creator of the New Deal
Who is FDR?
100
21 and 22
What chapters are we in?
200
CCC
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
200
Shantytowns
What are Hoovervilles?
200
The total value of goods and services produced in a nation during a specific period.
What is GNP or Gross National Product?
200
Also known as the three "R's"
What is Relief, Reform, and Recovery?
200
Spring Break
What starts Friday at 2:37 p.m.?
300
TVA
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
300
They just wanted to cash their certificates in.
Who was the Bonus Army?
300
The use of the radio by FDR to increase morale among US citizens.
What were the fireside chats?
300
Ruled against some New Deal legislation.
What is the Supreme Court?
300
West
What direction do the windows in the class face?
400
AAA
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
400
Okies
What is the term used for migrants during the depression?
400
Required the strikers to stay in the factory day and night.
What is a sit-down strike?
400
First female Secretary of Labor.
Who is Frances Perkins?
400
May 2nd
When is my last day?
500
FDIC
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
500
October 29, 1929
What is "Black Tuesday" or the day the market crashed?
500
When the government spends more money than it makes.
What is a deficit?
500
Paid retirement benefits and provided unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
500
Cashed the first Social Security check.
Who is Ida May Fuller?