Dust bowl
Effects of the depression
Culture and enertainment
Effects of the new deal
Eleanor Roosevelt/ FDR
100
How many miles did the dust bowl damage?
150,000
100
How many people had no jobs?
9 million people
100
What was a popular source of enertainmet?
Radio shows, theaters, ect.
100
what was the WPA?
An organization created by congress to provide jobs for the American people
100
What was the Black Cabinet
A group of black advisors working for roosevelt
200
Name two of the five states that were affected by the Dust Bowl
Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico
200
what was the main effect of the depression?
unemployment
200
what was one of the most popular musicals in the 1920's
The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind
200
What gave unions the ability to negotiate better working conditions?
Wagner act of 1935
200
how did eleanor Roosevelt contribute to the new deal?
she acted as her husbands eyes and ears to help him make desicions
300
How many people fled from the Great Plains to California and other Pacific Coast states
2.5 million people
300
What was the American federation of labor?
The biggest labor union in the 20's and 30's
300
Radio, Musicals, and theater all contributed to what age?
The golden age of cinema
300
what did Roosevelt do to the goverment?
He expand it
300
why did African americans do to stay loyal to FDR?
becuause of his efforts to help african americans, the poor and the unemployed