Key Terms
Key People
Key Concepts
Mystery
100
radio talk
What is a fireside chat?
100
Democratic President who created the New Deal
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
The name of the day that the stock market completely crashed
What is Black Tuesday?
100
Workers stay in the factory but stop production
What is a sit down strike?
200
fail to repay loans
What is default?
200
First Lady who used her position to champion women's rights
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
200
the group of appointees who advised FDR on African American issues
What is the Black Cabinet?
200
financial failure caused by a company's inability to pay its debts
What is bankruptcy?
300
retirement payment
What is a pension?
300
President who many people blamed for the worsening conditions after the stock market crash
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
The 100 million acres that were turned into wasteland by a drought that caused gigantic dust storms
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
A situation in which the government spends more money that it receives in taxes
What is deficit spending?
400
a situation in which the supply of manufactured goods exceed the demand
What is overproduction?
400
FDR's secretary of labor
Who is Frances Perkins?
400
List 2 arguments for the New Deal?
What is employment for millions of jobless people? What is it ended the banking crisis? What is that it saved poor families from losing there home?
400
Head of the United Mine Workers who formed the Committee for Industrial Organization
Who is John L. Lewis?
500
a tax that removes money directly from workers' paychecks
What is payroll tax?
500
Became the top ranking African American in the government
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
500
What are two arguments against the New Deal?
What is it gave too much power to the federal government? What is government programs threatened individual freedom? What is it would cause a massive increase in the nations debt?
500
List the three goals of the New Deal?
What is relief for the jobless? What is economic recovery? What are reforms to prevent future depressions?