Miscellaneous
The New Deal
The Great Depression
Alphabet Agencies
Terms
100

President who believed in rugged individualism

Who is Herbert Hoover 

100

These group of people opposed the New Deal(Government intervention)

Republicans 

100

Oct. 29, 1929


What is the day the stock market crashed.

100

This agency gave young adults employment to work on various conservation projects.


What is the Civilian Conservation Corps.

100

The elected official whose successor has already been elected

What is the Lame Duck

200

President who came up with the New Deal

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt 

200

The four day period that allowed the federal government to inspect banks to see if they were healthy enough to function

What is the Banking holiday

200

The person who was blamed for the Great Depression

Who is Herbert Hoover 
200

The act that created the FDIC was called.

What is the Glass-Stegall Act?

200

The amendment that moved the inauguration of the president from March to January 

What is the 20th Amendment

300
The radio show President Roosevelt promoted his New Deal programs 

What is the Fireside Chat

300

The act that provided financial assistance to old age Americans

What is the Social Security Act?

300

Americans of all social classes bought items on this

What is buying on credit

300

This agency paid farmers NOT to farm some of their land.


What is the AAA. (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)

300

The failure to pay interest or principal on a loan or security when due. 



What is default 

400

People of the dust bowl were called this upon arrival to California 

Who are the "Okies"

400

The act that insured depositors of their money in banks 

What is the FDIC

400

WWI army veterans that went to Washington to get a promised bonus.

What is the Bonus Army 

400

This act set a maximum hours at 44 hours per week, decreasing to 40 hours after two years. 



What is the Fair Labor Standards Act

400

This is borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock

Margins

500

The dust storms that swept the Great Plains 



What are the Black Blizzards

500

The three key goals of FDR's New Deal program

What is relief, recovery & reform

500

This tariff was intended to help Americans by taxing imported goods

Hawley-Smoot Tarif 

500

This act protected the right of workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining with employers.

What is the Wagner Act

500

A period when manufacturing is down, unemployment is very high, and a lot of banks and businesses close down.

What is the Great Depression