These are little towns consisting largely of hastily built shacks (nickname)
What were "Shantytowns"
100
Empty pocket turned inside were mockingly called this
What is "Hoover flags"
100
He defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 presidential election
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
100
Franklin Roosevelt's wife
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt
200
The support of certain price levels at or above market values by the government
What is "price support"
200
Cash payments or food given directly to the poor
What is direct relief
200
The idea that people should succeed through their own efforts
What is rugged individualism
200
FDR's monthly talk over the radio to the American people to keep them informed about American progress during the "Great Depression"
What is a "fireside chat"
200
This provided cheap electricity to isolated rural areas
What is Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
300
It established the highest protective tariff in United States history
What is the Hawley Smoot Tariff
300
Nickname given to individuals (mostly men) who left home, road the rails and survived day to day
What is a hobo
300
These individuals (as a group) looked to be paid the $500 bonus they were promised for serving in WW1, due to be paid in 1945 but demanded now
What is the "bonus army"
300
The Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933 established this agency which protected peoples money deposited in banks in order to re-establish confidence in the banking system
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
300
He headed the Works Progress Administration
Who is Harry Hopkins
400
This is the most widely used barometer of the stock market's health
What is Dow Jones Industrial Average
400
Name given to the midwest region that was torn apart by the drought of the early 1930's
What is the "dust bowl"
400
This government program allowed homeowners and farmers to refinance in order to avoid foreclosure on their property
What is the "Federal Home Loan Bank Act"
400
This act sought to promote industrial growth by establishing codes of fair practice for individual industries
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
400
This act provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses and aided people with disabilities
What is the Social Securities Act
500
The common name given to October 29th 1929
What is "Black Tuesday"
500
From 1929 to 1932 this rose 30% higher then it had been in previous years because of the problems of the "Great Depression"
What is the suicide rate
500
The economic approach taken by Herbert Hoover's secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon during the early stages of the "Great Depression
What is the "do-nothing" approach
500
The president's attempt to allow him to appoint six new justices to the Supreme Court in order to "create a court more sympathetic to the New Deal and its programs" became labeled as this
What is the "court packing bill"
500
This event brought to an official end the "Great Depression"