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Causes of Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
How Much Would It Cost?
Alphabet Soup
Odds and Ends
100
This took place in 1929 and is considered the start of the Great Depression since many people lost all of their money in it
What is the Stock Market Crash
100
What was the name of his plan he created to help improve the economy
What is the "New Deal"
100
A woman's raincoat. 5 cents, $3.00, or $12.00
What is $3.00
100
This the agency which helped stop the flooding in the Tennessee Valley. ___ ____ A
What is the TVA
100

What Woody Guthrie folk song is written about the Great Depression

What is "This Land is Your Land" or "I Ain't Got No Home in This World" or "House of the Rising Sun"?

200
This President thought that by doing nothing the economy would get better because the economy goes up then down then back up
What is Herbert Hoover
200

What do we call the temporary grouping of different groups of people, who normally would not join each other, that have a common goal?

What is the (New Deal) Coalition?

200
Kid's Wagon $1 dollar, 4 dollars, 8 dollars
What is 4 dollars
200
This Agency paid farmers NOT to grow their crops in order to raise the price of crops. This doubled the prices of Crops before being declared unconstitutional in 1936. ___ ____ A
What is AAA
200
What would you call a group of cardboard houses set up in a public park or street alley?
What is a Hooverville
300

What happened to the United States banks after the stock market crash?

The banks ran out of money and then closed.

300
What is the name of the disease that kept FDR in a wheelchair most of the time
What is Polio
300
Man's fine leather jacket 2 dollars, 4 dollars, 7 dollars
What is 7 dollars
300
This Act in 1935 provided (and still provides today) money for people after they have retired.
What is Social Security
300

The original name of Hoover Dam and the city it provides electricity for

What was Boulder Dam...Las Vegas

400

What is overproduction

What is when a company makes more products (TVs, Cars, Radios, etc) than people are willing to buy.

400
What was the name of his radio broadcasts were he spoke to all America like they were simply his friends
What are Fireside Chats
400
Singer Sewing Machine. 12 dollars, 16 dollars, 22 dollars
What is 22 dollars
400
This agency build public airports, sewers, roads, schools, and other buildings. It spent over 10.5 Billion dollars and employed 3.8 Million men. W ____ ____.
What is the WPA
400
What was the name of the drought that caused many farmers in the great plains to have terrible harvests in the 1930's?
What is the dust bowl
500

What is it called when you borrow money in order to buy more stock?

What is "buying on margin"?

500

Name one famous critic of FDR and the New Deal

Who is Huey Long (or Father Charles Coughlin or Dr. Francis Townsend)?

500
How Much money would the average factory worker make in a week. 15 dollars, 20 dollars, 25 dollars
What is 15 dollars
500
This group of men ages 18 - 26 learned forestry skills t help improve our national forest and national parks during the 1930's. ___ ____ C.
What is the CCC
500
What does Woody Guthrie really think of America in his song "This Land is Your Land"?
What is the America is no longer made for everyone. OR It is changing for the worst as people are getting greedy.