Show:
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
What was the TVA?
This the agency which helped stop the flooding in the Tennessee Valley.
100
What Woody Guthrie folk song is written about the Great Depression
What is "This Land" or "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
Who were the people who liked Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What is poor and unemployed
200
Kid's Wagon $1 dollar, 4 dollars, 8 dollars
What is 4 dollars
200
This Agency insured banks across the United States.
What is FDIC
200
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
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
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
What caused the Dust Bowl?
Overfarming, drought, soil turned to dust
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
Who were the Alphabet Soup programs created for?
People who were poor, homeless, and/or jobless.
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 buy something with money you do not have?
What is buying on credit.
500
Who were people that disliked FDR
What is the rich
500
How Much money would the average factory worker make in a week. 15 dollars, 20 dollars, 25 dollars
What is 15 dollars
500
What did the CCC do? (Civilian Conservation Corps.)
This group of men ages 18 - 26 learned forestry skills t help improve our national forest and national parks during the 1930's.
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.