Great Depression
This 1929 event triggered the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This region of the United States was most affected by the Dust Bowl.
What is the Great Plains?
FDR’s plan to address the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
The movie Cinderella Man takes place during this historical era.
What is the Great Depression?
This term describes immediate help provided to Americans during the Depression.
What is Relief?
This term describes buying stocks with borrowed money.
What is buying on margin?
Two major causes of the Dust Bowl were drought and this farming practice.
The three main goals of the New Deal were Relief, Recovery, and this.
What is reform?
The main character of Cinderella Man who is a professional boxer.
Who is James. J Braddock
This New Deal goal focused on restarting the economy and creating jobs.
What is Recovery?
Unemployment during the Great Depression reached about this percentage.
What is 25% ?
This nickname was given to migrants who traveled west after losing their farms.
Who were the Okies?
This New Deal program insured Americans’ bank deposits.
What is the FDIC?
The main reason Braddock returns to boxing in the film.
What is to support his family financially?
This New Deal goal focused on preventing future economic disasters.
What is Reform?
These makeshift homeless communities were named after President Hoover.
What are Hoovervilles?
These massive dust storms were also called this.
What are Black Blizzards
This New Deal program created jobs building roads, bridges, and schools.
What is the WPA?
This theme is shown when Braddock feels embarrassed asking for government help.
What is pride?
Both the Dust Bowl and Great Depression caused this major social change.
What is Migration?
World War I veterans who marched on Washington demanding early bonus payments.
Who were the Bonus Army?
This illness was caused by breathing in dust during Dust Bowl storms.
What is dust pneumonia?
FDR’s controversial plan to add more Supreme Court justices.
What is the court-packing plan?
Braddock’s manager and loyal supporter throughout the film.
Who is Joe Gould
This president believed the federal government should take action during the Depression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt