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The New Deal
The Second New Deal
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Culture
Miscellaneous
100
Time when most of FDR's early programs were passed.
What is 100 Days?
100
The program that provided old-age pensions, disability benefits, and unemployment relief.
What is Social Security?
100
A time when the federal government closed all banks.
What is "Bank Holiday"?
100
Disney's first feature-length animated movie.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
100
Famous baseball player who died from ALS.
Who is Lou Gehrig?
200
The types of programs.
What are relief, reform, and recovery?
200
FDR's attempt to add more supreme court justices in order to make sure that more of his programs were passed.
What is court packing?
200
Area of the United States that suffered from a seven-year drought.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
Margaret Mitchell's famous book.
What is Gone with the Wind?
200
The voting bloc that switched from voting Republican to Democrat during the 1930s.
Who are African Americans?
300
FDR's talks with the American public by radio broadcasts.
What are "Fireside Chats"?
300
Critics who thought FDR's programs went too far.
Who are Republicans?
300
Programs designed to make changes to ensure that another depression didn't happen again.
What are reform programs?
300
Woody Guthrie
Who is a famous folk singer?
300
Explain why people went to the movies and what types of movies they liked to see.
What are to be entertained and escape the hardships of the economic depression? What are cartoons, westerns, and comedies?
400
Explain the Civilian Conservation Corps.
What is a program geared toward young men. They lived in army camps and did work in state/national parks.
400
This occurs when a country spends more money than it brings in.
What is deficit spending?
400
Programs designed to put money in people's pockets, to make sure they have food, and to provide shelter.
What relief programs?
400
Author of the Little House in the Big Woods.
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?
400
A cheap form of entertainment that many people took advantage of.
What is reading paperback books?
500
Famous quotation from FDR's first inaugural address.
What is "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"?
500
Occurs when the government provides for people's individual needs.
What is a welfare state?
500
Programs whose purpose was to increase business activity.
What are recovery programs?
500
Famous African-American track runner.
Who is Jesse Owens.
500
Explain how the U.S. government changed during the Great Depression.
What is became much bigger, had more power, and was involved in individual's lives?