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Dust Bowl
New Deal
Causes
Hoover
Poverty
100
Name of the famous picture of the woman and her children
What is Migrant Mother
100
Program designed to provide a pension to the elderly and disabled
What is Social Security
100
Caused prices of crops to drop during 1920's
What is supply
100
Name of the shanty towns
What is Hooverville
100
At the peak, percentage of Americans that were unemployed
What is 25%
200
Nickname given to people who migrated from the Dust Bowl affected areas
What is Okies
200
Number of bills that FDR sent to Congress, all of which passed
What is 15
200
Term for the contagious, mass closings of banks
What is bank run
200
The group of WWI vets that demonstrated in Washingtn DC
What is the Bonus Army
200
People often waited in line for
What is bread/coffee/soup
300
Invention that allowed farmers to plow up more land
What is tractor
300
FDR passed the New Deal programs in his first ____ days
What is 100
300
Name of banking system in which only a small percentage of deposits are kept in the banks' vaults
What is fractional reserve banking
300
Year that Hoover took office
What is 1929
300
Who generally provided food to the poor
What is charities
400
Two weather conditions necessary to create the Dust Bowl
What is Drought & high winds
400
The AAA paid farmers to
What is not grow crops
400
On what date (month/day/year) was Black Tuesday
What is Oct. 29, 1929
400
At the beginning of the depression, Hoover called on ________ to help America's economy
What is individuals/businesses
400
What did people often sell for a nickel
What are apples
500
What two things did did the mother and her children eat while living in California
What is frozen peas & birds
500
What is the purpose of public works projects
What is the put people to work
500
Who was unable to pay back war debts owed to America
What is Britain & France
500
Name given to the talks that FDR had with the American people
What is fireside chats
500
Unemployment averaged what percent during the decade of the 1930s
What is 20%