New Deal Programs
What is it called when jobs are provided for young men to plant trees, built bridges and parks, and set up control projects?
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
highly infectious disease that leads to paralysis
Polio
When did the Stock Market Crash?
1929
What is FDR's full name?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What took place in 1929 and is considered the start of the Great Depression since many people lost all of their money in it
Stock Market Crash
What do you call it when you pay farmers not to grow certain crops
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Closing of banks for four days during the Depression.
Bank Holiday
When was FDR elected as president?
1933
How many terms did FDR serve?
FDR served 4 terms from 1933-1945
What POTUS during the Great Depression believed in a limited role for government in the economy, favoring laissez-faire.
Herbert Hoover
When was the Social Security Act passed
1935
radio speech given by President FDR while in office
fireside chat
When does Roosevelt get re-elected
1936
True or False. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and FDR were 6th cousins.
False. They were 5th distant cousins
What is it called when you borrow money in order to buy more stock?
"buying on margin''
What does EBRA stand for?
Emergency Banking Relief Act
government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes designed to stabilize industry
National Recovery Administration
When did the WPA come into existence?
1935
What is Eleanor Roosevelt's first name?
Anna
What happened to the United States banks after the stock market crash?
What is another name for the National Labor Relations Act
The Wagner Act
New Deal program that built dams to control flooding and produce cheap electric power
Tennessee Valley Authority
Americans escaped from their worries by watching the movie "Gone with the Wind" in what year?
1939
True or False. FDR was already president when he got polio.
False. (He was governor of New York when he got it in 1921 and he went into office in 1933.)
What is the Wall Street crash of 1929 called?
Black Tuesday