People
FDR
The Great Depression
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100
Term for those displaced because of the Dust Bowl?
What is an "Okie".
100
He addressed this issue first upon becoming President?
What are the banks.
100
Oct. 29, 1929
What is the day the stock market crashed.
100
This agency gave young adults employment to work on various conservation projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps.
100
FDR's political idol?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt.
200
Famous female photographer who captured the suffering and perseverance of Americans during the Depression?
(Hint: Migrant Mother photograph)
Who is Dorothea Lange.
200
Delivered how many "fire-side" chats?
What is 30.
200
High winds and drought hit the country's farm belt.
What is the Dust Bowl.
200
This insures money that is deposited into banks.
What is the FDIC. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
200
Name the man whose response to the Depression called on Americans to turn to voluntary groups such as the Red Cross, Salvation Army and others?
Who is Herbert Hoover.
300
The person who came up with the "Share Our Wealth" plan.
Who is Huey Long.
300
Name FDR's favorite New Deal program?
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corporation).
300
The person who was blamed for the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover.
300
This agency brought electricity to the Tennessee Valley.
What is the TVA. (Tennessee Valley Authority)
300
Attempt by FDR to get to the Supreme Court to do what in regards to the New Deal?
What is support his programs.
400
Nine African American teenagers wrongly charged with the rape of two white women?
Who are the Scottsboro Boys.
400
Established in Warm Springs, Georgia by FDR?
What is a rehabilitation center for those with polio.
400
Who destroyed the encampment of the Bonus Army?
What is the United States Army.
400
The largest and most varied of all the New Deal programs?
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)
400
What was a Hoover blanket?
What is a newspaper.
500
WWI veterans who sought the early payment of promised bonuses?
Who are the Bonus Army marchers.
500
FDR was elected to how many terms as President?
What is four.
(1932,1936, 1940, 1944)
500
What is overexpansion of industry, maldistribution of wealth, global depression, and speculation on the stock market?
What are the causes of the Great Depression.
500
The U.S. was the last western nation to provide income security for its own workers through this New Deal program still in existence?
What is the SSA (Social Security Administration)
500
What is 25% in 1933.
What is umemployment.