Great Depression 1
Great Depression 2
Great Depression/New Deal
New Deal 1
New Deal 2
Persons of the
Era
100

This is the spark of the Great Depression

What is the the stock market crash?

100

What area of the country did the Dust Bowl affect?

The Great Plains

100

What ended the Great Depression?

World War II

100

Term when ALL banks were forced to close for FOUR days.


What was the “Bank Holiday?”

Emergency Banking Relief Act- Passed by Congress, allowed only sound banks to reopen, the rest remained closed

100

This action in Flint, Michigan by the UAW-CIO ended with GM giving in after 6 weeks.

What is the Sit-Down Strike?

100

Famous photographer who captured the image called Migrant Mother.

Who is Dorothea Lange? 

200

The term where scared bank depositors tried to withdraw their savings. 

What is a bank run or bank panic?

200

What 2 underlying issues led to the Great Depression?

1. Overproduction 2. Bank Closures 3. Overuse of Credit 3. Lack of oversight by the Fed 4. Income Inequality 5. Stock Market Crash 6. Tariff Policy 7. Gold Standard 8. Bank Panics

200

Result of Black Tuesday

businesses went bankrupt, people lost life savings

200

Construction program that brought electricity, navigable waterways, controlled flooding, created jobs in the South

What is the TVA?

200

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established this.

What is a minimum wage?

200

She became the first Black woman to lead an agency in the U.S. government.

Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?

300

President during the beginning of the Great Depression.

Who is Herbert Hoover?


300

This was an effect of the Dust Bowl on farmers and tenant farmers.

What is falling crop prices, or kicked off their land, or their topsoil was blown away, or they were forced to move?

300

Name two New Deal's actions.

1. reopened healthy banks 2. protected savings 3. regulate stock market 4. gave people public work jobs,

300

This person became the "eyes, ears, and legs" of FDR.

Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?

300

This occurred when spending by the U.S. govt went down between 1937-1938.

What is unemployment went up?

300

California writer John Steinbeck wrote this 1939 famous novel about Dust Bowl refugees?

What is The Grapes of Wrath?

400

This is the process of paying a small percentage of a stock as a down payment and borrowing the rest." 

What is "buying on margin?

400

This is the name of the slums or shanty towns during the Great Depression

What are Hoovervilles?

400

Name one project created by New Deal programs in Sacramento?

1. Tower Bridge 2. Theodore Judah Elementary 3. McClatchy High School 4. Land Park 5. Sac Executive Airport 6. Fountain at Caesar Chavez Park 7. Sac City College 

400

This program protected consumer's bank deposits.

What is the FDIC?

400

Famous speeches FDR gave over the radio to Americans

What are Fireside Chats?

400

FDR shifted his worries to this person near the end of the Great Depression.

Who is Hitler?

500

What is the date of Black Tuesday ?

October 29, 1929

500

How long did Great Depression last ? Through what years ?

11 years and 1929-1940

500

This act provided monthly income to the elderly and retired persons.

What is Social Security Act?

500

This program was set up to regulate the stock market.

What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?

500
Act meant to establish a "better working relationship between management and labor."

What is the Wagner Act, or NLRA?

500

Famous folk singer who wrote "This Land is Your Land."

Who is Woody Gutherie?