Great Depression
The serious and world wide economic decline of the 1930s was called?
The Great Depression
Name two New Deal Programs during Roosevelt's presidency
FDRA, CWA, NIRA, TVA, WPA
During the Depression, newly homeless people put up communities of shacks they called?
Hoovervilles
World War 1 veterans who came to washington seeking early payment of bonuses for wartime service
Bonus Army
Who was the first President of the United States to live in the White House?
John Adams
What was the first US welfare program for the aged, disabled, and unemployed?
Social Security Act
Who did President Hoover think should help the needy?
Charities
Farmers on the Great Plains began to lose their crops during the Depression because…..
A terrible drought dried the soil.
Series of radio talks in which FDR explained his policies in a casual way
Fireside Chats
What city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople
What created the National Recovery Admin?
National Industrial Recovery
How did the New Deal change the role of the federal government?
Made them more involved in the economy and peoples life's
President Herbert Hoover hoped that increasing government funding for public works projects would
Spur the construction industry
Democratic President who created the New Deal
FDR or Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What ancient wonder was built by King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
What program employed urban men?
Civilian Conservation Corps
What term does with investing into stocks, betting that the market would continue to climb so they could make a quick profit?
Speculators
list 5 States that were affected by the Dust Bowel
Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico
Wife of FDR
Eleanor Roosevelt
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
What program subsidized farmers?
Agricultural Adjustment Admin
The stock market crash weakened the nation’s banks because.......
Banks had invested their deposits in the stock market
Republican President who failed to halt the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
Largest labor union and more selective than the CIO
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
What was the name of the famous ancient Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer