Reform, Relief, Recovery
People of the Era
The Great Plains
Crash
MISC.
100
A plan known during the Great Depression to focus on reform, recovery, and relief.
What is the New Deal?
100
The president blamed for the start of the Great Depression.
Who was President Herbert Hoover?
100
A period of time in the Great Plains (including Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico) that suffered years of drought and dust storms.
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
A place to buy and sell shares in a company?
What is the stock market?
100
The name of the day the stock market crashed and was at its lowest.
What is Black Tuesday?
200
An organization created to fund projects to build parks, trails, and plant trees.
What is the CCC (Civilian, Conservation Corps)?
200
A famous photographer who took pictures of underprivileged people during the Great Depression.
Who was Dorothea Lange?
200
The removal of this native plant to grow more crops during World War I lead to erosion of soil in the Plains.
What is prairie grass?
200
Buying this on credit lead to the Stock Market Crash of 1928.
What is stock?
200
The unemployment rate during the Great Depression.
What is 25%?
300
An agency that provided jobs for skilled workers to build schools, hospitals, parks, and sewer systems for the public.
What is the PWA (Public Works Administration?
300
The only president to serve more than two terms in office. He was elected for a fourth term but died shortly after the fourth term started.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
300
The lack of rain caused a severe drought, but this group also impacted the land by overfarming?
Who were the settlers?
300
A long-term downturn in economic activity.
What is economic depression?
300
The term used when you can not pay back your loan.
What is default?
400
An agency that helped make home loans affordable, make repairs to homes, and lower interest rates on mortgages.
What is the FHA (Federal Housing Administration?
400
A first lady who was a political helpmate to her husband in office. She changed the expectations of the first lady by being interviewed and later having a radio talk show.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
400
In addition to planting prairie grass and trees, a kinder/gentler way of ________ also helped the plains recover from the Dust Bowl.
What is farming?
400
The longest depression in American history lasted for ten years beginning and ending in these years.
What is 1929-1939?
400
The period when farmers bought lots of farm equipment on credit to produce more food.
What is World War I?
500
An agency that built dams to provide electricity to people in the rural areas of the Tennessee Valley.
What is (TVA) Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
Who was responsible for creating the projects nicknamed "Alphabet Soup?"
Who was President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
500
The Civilian Conservation Corps replanted two things to help the Great Plains recover from damage to the land.
What are prairie grasses and trees?
500
Some banks failed because they invested people's saved money in the stock market. When the stock market crashed the banks _________.
What is collapsed or failed?
500
A long period of dry weather and little rain.
What is a drought?