Causes of the Great Depression
Life During the Depression
FDR’s Leadership
New Deal Programs
Ideologies, Opposition, & Legacy
100
What event on October 29, 1929, marked the start of the Great Depression?
Black Tuesday / Stock Market Crash
100
During her 1937 attempt to fly around the world, this aviator and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean, sparking one of history’s greatest mysteries.
Amelia Earhart
100
Who did Franklin D. Roosevelt defeat in the 1932 presidential election?
Herbert Hoover
100
Which New Deal law created a system of retirement and unemployment benefits?
Social Security Act
100
Which ideology believed the government should stay out of the economy and let businesses recover on their own?
Conservative
200
Buying stocks with borrowed money was known as this risky practice.
buying on margin
200
What nickname was given to the shantytowns where the unemployed lived?
Hoovervilles
200
The 3 goals of the New Deal were known as these 3 “R’s.
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
200
What New Deal agency was created to protect people’s savings and restore trust in the banking system after the bank runs of the early 1930s?
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
200
Which ideology supported government programs like the New Deal to help those in need?
Liberal
300
When people rushed to withdraw their money from banks after the crash, it caused this phenomenon.
bank run
300
This natural disaster destroyed farms in the Great Plains during the 1930s.
Dust Bowl
300
FDR used these radio addresses to explain his programs and reassure Americans.
Fireside Chats
300
Which program gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks?
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
300
Which ideology wanted to completely change the economic system, such as through socialism or wealth redistribution?
Radical
400
Before the 1929 crash, what economic problem was caused by factories and farms producing more goods than consumers could buy?
overproduction
400
Migrant families who left the Dust Bowl to find work in California were nicknamed what?
Okies
400
What constitutional amendment ended Prohibition during FDR’s presidency?
21st Amendment
400
Which program brought electricity and jobs to the rural South?
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
400
What was the nickname for FDR’s unsuccessful attempt to add more justices to the Supreme Court?
Court Packing
500
This tariff raised taxes on imports and worsened the global economic crisis.
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
500
Photographer Dorothea Lange captured this famous image symbolizing the struggles of the poor during the Depression. What is the name of this famous image?
Migrant Mother
500
To restore public trust in banks, what did FDR declare shortly after taking office?
Bank Holiday
500
Which law protected workers’ rights to form unions and bargain collectively?
Wagner Act
500
Frustrated that FDR’s New Deal didn’t go far enough, this radical plan by Huey Long during the Great Depression proposed doing what to the rich to “Share Our Wealth”?
taxing anyone earning over $1 million a year