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Causes of Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dust Bowl
New Deal
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

Two major causes of the Dust Bowl

What are drought and poor farming conditions?

100
FDR famously put out his 1st New Deal in his first ____ days of office.

What is 100?

100

What famous song did Woodie Guthrie write that most people don't know is a protest song?

What is  "This Land is Your Land"

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

FDR's wife, and a famous and important first lady!

Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?

200
Name at least 3 states impacted by the Dust Bowl.

What are Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, South Dakota

200

The 3 R's of the New Deal: Relief, _____, and Reform

What is Recovery?

200
At the height of the depression, this percentage of the US population was out of work.

What is 25%?

300

What happened to many banks after the stock market crash?

The banks ran out of money. (They gave out IOU's instead)

300
What is the name of the disease that kept FDR in a wheelchair most of the time
What is Polio
300

Most people who fled the Dust Bowl headed where?

What is west (California)?

300
This Act in 1935 provided (and still provides today) money for people after they have retired.
What is Social Security
300

When this famous baseball player was asked why he was making more money than President Herbert Hoover, he responded: "I'm having a better year than he is!"

Who was Babe Ruth?

400
What is overproduction
What is when a company makes more products (TVs, Cars, Radios, etc) than people are willing to buy.
400

FDR was the first president to make great use of this new technology by having 'Fireside Chats'.

What is the Radio

400

What caused the end of the dust bowl?

Regular rainfall (starting in 1939)

400

This was the New Deal program nearest and dearest to FDR's heart--conserve the natural world!   _ _ C

What is the CCC?

400

What was the official name for when the government racially profiled and deported 2 million Mexicans and Mexican Americans to Mexico in the 1930s?

What is Mexican Repatriation?

500

What does high consumer debt mean?

It means the people who buy things (consumers) owed a lot of money and so couldn't afford to buy.

500

This was the most famous quote of FDR's first presidential speech to the American people.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!"

500

What disease did many get when exposed to too much dust that settled in their lungs?

What is Dust pneumonia?

500

This was a major New Deal achievement; all jobs (except domestic help and farm laborers) need to pay their workers a certain amount!

What is minimum wage?

500

What does Woody Guthrie really think of America in his song "This Land is Your Land"?

That America is no longer made for everyone. OR It is changing for the worst as people are getting greedy.