Great Depression 1
Great Depression 2
Great Depression 3
Great Depression 4
Great Depression 5
150
He was the United States president that gave "relief" to the people during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
150
A major reason American farmers failed to obtain fair shares in the 1920 is...
overproduction of crops
150
What was the Great Depression?
What was an economic downturn that occured in The United States?
150
This was the wife of the President during the late years of the Great Depression. (FDR's wife)
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
150
In what decade did the Great Depression mostly occur?
What are the 1930's?
275
Which term was used to the region of the American mid-west that suffered a devastating drought full of huge dirt storms during the 1930's.
What is the Dust Bowl?
275
This event is often considered to be the starting point of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
275
Who Am I ?
FDR
275
How did President Roosevelt try to change the Supreme Court?
What is packing the court/court packing scheme?
275
THE EXPANSION OF THE POWER OF THE FEDERAL GOV’T was a major result of FDR's ______ _________
The New Deal
400
a group of WWI veterans who marched on Hoover’s White House looking for benefits (bonuses) was known as...
The Bonus Army
400
Who was President of the USA during WWI...before Hoover?
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
October 29, 1929 is also known as this.
What is Black Tuesday?
400
What is the name of the relief/recovery/reform programs introduce by FDR during the Great Depression?
What is New Deal?
400
Which New Deal Program aimed to help the old, retired, unemployed, and injured?
What is Social Security Act?
600
The unemployed and poor often lived in "shanty towns." They were often referred to as.
What are Hoovervilles?
600
What natural disaster struck the US blowing dirt across hundreds of miles?
The Dust Bowl
600
During the Great Depression, people would line up at ____________ to get food. These were normally run by charities.
What are soup kitchens/breadlines?
600
What was a Hooverville?
Makeshift shacks in spaces around cities where homeless people lived.
600
Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Who is Herbert Hoover?
1000
Which New Deal agency gave short term jobs to men that required cleaning parks, cutting down trees, etc?
What is CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
and
Public Works Dept
1000
Which New Deal Program helped farmers?
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
1000
What are the M.A.I.N. causes of World War I?
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
1000
Langston Hughes (review from last chapter) was a famous poet who helped bring prosperous times for...._______ ____________ in the __________ Renaissance
African Americans in the Harlem Renaissance
1000
What was required of Women during the Great Depression, much more than before?
(name 2 different things that were asked of them)
Work more in fields
Provide for their family
Get an income (no husbands)