While the 1920s were "roaring" for most Americans, this group didn't benefit from the economic prosperity.
Who are farmers?
100
The stock market crash occurred on this date, referred to as "Black Tuesday."
What is October 29, 1929?
100
In many communities, these sprawling neighborhoods of shacks sprang up on the outskirts of town or in public parks to house the newly homeless.
What are Hoovervilles?
100
With the election of this man in 1932, Democrats reclaimed the White House for the first time in 12 years, promising a "New Deal" for the American people.
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
This program, part of FDR's Second New Deal & still in existence today, provides a pension, or guaranteed, regular payments, for many people 65 and older.
What is Social Security?
200
By 1929, 1 in 5 Americans owned one of these.
What is a car?
200
This practice, buying stocks with loans from stockbrokers, contributed to the crash.
What is buying on margin
200
These vagrants hopped trains to travel from town to town in search of work.
Who are hoboes?
200
In contrast to Hoover, Roosevelt had the basic faith in the ability of the __________ to solve economic and social problems and to help people in need.
What is government?
200
These TWO New Deal legislation were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
What are the NIRA (too much control) and the AAA (agriculture is a local matter)?
300
In the 1920s, GNP in the U.S. rose by 40%. This is GNP. What is the acronym and what is the definition?
What is Gross National Product--the total value of goods and services produced in a nation?
300
The stock market crash led to a _____ crisis as people rushed to withdraw deposits.
What is bank?
300
These were the causes of the Dust Bowl.
What were severe drought and loss of crops to secure the topsoil?
300
Days after taking office, Roosevelt issued an executive order doing this in order to prevent a run on banks.
What is closing all the banks in a "bank holiday"?
300
In order to protect labor unions, FDR created passed this act outlawing a number of antilabor practices, such as the creation of company-sponsored unions. It also established a powerful new National Labor Relations Board.
What is the National Labor Relations Act or the Wagner Act?
400
The effect of economic prosperity in the 1920s on organized labor.
What is a decline in union membership as workers felt more financially secure at work?
400
These are the causes of the Great Depression.
What were tariffs & war debt policies, U.S. demand low, despite factories producing more, farm sector crisis, easy credit and the unequal distribution of income?
400
For Hoover, this project’s success demonstrated the creative power of partnerships between private business and the federal government.
What is the Hoover Dam?
400
The Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, was established in 1933 to address this particular problem.
What is unemployment among young men 18 to 25 years old?
400
This is the main objective of the Agriculture Adjustment Act.
What is provided aid for migrants, sharecroppers, and poor farmers?
500
This businessman had overseen America’s food production during World War I and later directed relief efforts in Europe. He also served as the secretary of commerce under Harding and Coolidge.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
500
Governments in the United States and in countries around the world moved to protect their own industries by passing these, which made imported goods more expensive than those made at home.
What are tariffs?
500
One of Hoover's few efforts to respond to the Great Depression, this stalled trade and proved to be a disaster.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?
500
A major part of the Second New Deal, this organization was the largest peacetime jobs program in U.S. history. It eventually employed 8.5 million Americans on all kinds of public-works projects at a cost of about $11 billion.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
500
FDR appointed this woman Secretary of Labor--the first female to hold a Presidential cabinet position, but certainly not the last (today six women currently serve on the President's cabinet).