Ups and Downs
Knowing the Alphabet
Terms
Letters
Odds and Ends
100

I am a model for economic growth 

What is the business cycle?

100

Name for a place fon18- 24 year old to find work during the depression

What was the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?

100

A French term meaning “hands off”

What is laissez-faire? 

100

The letter “E” in the acronym CUTE - a cause of the depression?

What is easy credit?

100

A critic of President Roosevelt who also blamed the Jews for the depression

Who is Father Coughlin?

200

When the economy stops growing

What is the peak?

200

A New Deal policy to insure your money at your bank

What is the FDIC?

200

President Hoover’s idea of helping oneself out of the depression

What is “rugged individualism” or self reliance?

200

The second R of the New Deal plan

What is recovery?

200

First woman to serve in a presidents cabinet 

Who was Francis Perkins?

300

An economic downturn for at least (6)months

What is a recession?

300

The (3) letter abbreviation for the president during the Great Depression

What was FDR?

300

Name given to Roosevelt’s group of New Deal Advisors

What is the brain trust?

300

The initials of the longest serving president of the US

What is FDR?

300

President Roosevelt’s “eyes and ears”?

Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?

400

A period of time from 1929 to 1939

What is the Great Depression?

400

A new Deal program to regulate stock market transaction

What is the SEC (Securities Exchange Commission)?

400

Fearful people trying frantically to get their money out of the bank during the Great Depression 

What is a run on the bank?

400

The letters AAA, WPA and CCC are all part of this

What is the New Deal?

400

Roosevelt called then them”the nine old men”?

Who was the Supreme Court?

500

Economic term for a time of economic growth after hitting a trough

What is recovery?

500

The New Deal policy designed to help the elderly and short term unemployed

What is Social Security?

500

President Roosevelt’s plan to spend more money than the government had to try and get the US out of the Depression

What is deficit spending? 

500

The New Deal program that created the largest amount of new job

What was the WPA (Works Progress Administration)?

500

This minority group probably benefitted the most during the Great Depression 

Who are Native Americans?