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The serious and world wide economic decline of the 1930s was called?

The Great Depression

100

Name two New Deal Programs during Roosevelt's presidency

FDRA, CWA, NIRA, TVA, WPA

100

During the Depression, newly homeless people put up communities of shacks they called?

Hoovervilles

100

World War 1 veterans who came to washington seeking early payment of bonuses for wartime service 

Bonus Army

100

Who was the first President of the United States to live in the White House?

John Adams

200

What was the first US welfare program for the aged, disabled, and unemployed?

Social Security Act

200

Who did President Hoover think should help the needy?

Charities 

200

Farmers on the Great Plains began to lose their crops during the Depression because…..

A terrible drought dried the soil.

200

Series of radio talks in which FDR explained his policies in a casual way

Fireside Chats

200

What city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?

Constantinople

300

What created the National Recovery Admin?

National Industrial Recovery

300

How did the New Deal change the role of the federal government?

Made them more involved in the economy and peoples life's 

300

President Herbert Hoover hoped that increasing government funding for public works projects would

Spur the construction industry

300

Democratic President who created the New Deal 

FDR or Franklin Delano Roosevelt 

300

What ancient wonder was built by King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon?

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

400

What program employed urban men?

Civilian Conservation Corps

400

What term does with investing into stocks, betting that the market would continue to climb so they could make a quick profit?

Speculators

400

list 5 States that were affected by the Dust Bowel

Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico

400

Wife of FDR

Eleanor Roosevelt 

400

Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Michelangelo

500

What program subsidized farmers?

Agricultural Adjustment Admin 

500

The stock market crash weakened the nation’s banks because.......

Banks had invested their deposits in the stock market

500

Republican President who failed to halt the Great Depression

Herbert Hoover

500

Largest labor union and more selective than the CIO

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

500

What was the name of the famous ancient Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

Homer