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100
During this time period African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans lost their jobs to white laborers.
What is the Great Depression?
100
The massive government speding of the New Deal led to ..
What is short-term economic improvement.
100
Presidents during the Great Depression.
Who are Hoover and FDR?
100
Author of the "Grapes of Wrath"
Who is John Steinbeck?
100
Natural drought in parts of the US
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
When stock is "safe" and "low risk".
What is a Bear Market?
200
His programs helped farmers by giving them financial assistance.
Who was FDR?
200
Sprang up un the nation's cities as one effect of hte wage cuts and unemployment of the 1930s.
What are Hoovervilles?
200
Group faced hard times during much of the 1920s.
What are farmers?
200
21st amendment brought an end to____________ in 1933.
What is prohibition?
300
Aimed to help businesses by bolstering industrial prices.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act?
300
Roosevelt stabilized industrial prices to help...
What is business?
300
Packed the supreme courts because it allowed him to have more power over the courts.
Who is FDR?
300
This Gerneral used force in order to get the Bonus Army marchers to leave the Capital.
Who was General MacArthur?
300
This was called the "crime of the century because it connected the era's extreme level of crime with depression.
What is the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder?
400
Investors raced to get their money out of the stock market after this Industrial Average began to drop in October 1929.
What is the Dow Jones Industial Average?
400
Group that criticized the New Deal for going too far in its attempts to reform the economy.
Who are the Republicans?
400
This Presidential election served as a turning point in the way Americans viewed the responsibilities of the federal government.
What is the election of 1932?
400
Her photographs of migrant workers helped win aid for the workers.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
400
Event that will help the US get out of the Great Depression.
What is WWII?
500
A symbol of hope during the depression/
What is the Empire State Building?
500
Part of its legacy was to restore hope among the people.
What is the New Deal?
500
Believed that the best way to end the Depression was through voluntary controls by American Businesses.
Who was Hoover?
500
Considered demagogues because they manipulated people with half-truths and scare tactics.
Who was Huey Long and Father Charles E. Coughlin?
500
Slowed International trade
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?