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Causes of Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Alphabet Soup
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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

This is the name of FDR's plan to help improve the economy

What is the "New Deal"

100

This act helped restore American confidence in banks.  It closed banks for a week and only opened reliable banks.

What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act?

100
This the agency which helped stop the flooding in the Tennessee Valley. ___ ____ A
What is the TVA
100

This is what men would do to show that they were poor.  It was to mock Hoover.

What is Hoover Flags.

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

Who was FDR's wife?

Who is Elenor Roosevelt.

200

This act protected workers' rights to join unions and strike peacefully.  

What is Wagner Act.

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. (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

This is when FDR first became president and Congress passed many laws that FDR requested.

What is Hundred Days

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

This is the natural up and down of business production and unemployment.

What is business cycle.

400

When a company makes more products than people are willing to buy

What is overproduction

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

These were the aims of the New Deal.

What are Relief, Recovery, Reform

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" or "Doubling Down" or On Margin
500

These people disliked FDR's New Deal.

Who are the rich

500

This is what workers in the CCC would have to do with their paycheck.

What is send most of it home to their families.

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

Many farmers migrated to this state during the Dust Bowl.

What is California?