These were shantytowns or squatter areas that were coined by this term during the Great Depression.
What is a Hooverville?
100
This is what essentially caused the Dust Bowl and even harder times to those living in certain areas during the Great Depression.
What is drought?
100
This was Roosevelt's "solution" to some of the problems encountered during the Great Depression.
What is the "New Deal"?
100
This is one of the most iconic photographs taken from the Great Depression of a widow and her 7 children living on a pea picking field at the time.
Who is the "Migrant Mother?"
100
This is a stock market that goes by the abbreviation of NYSE.
What is the New York Stock Exchange?
200
This was a term coined for newspapers that were used as covering during the Great Depression.
What is a Hoover blanket?
200
This was a nickname given to some people living in or coming from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl.
What is an "Okie?"
200
This is what paralyzed Roosevelt from the waist down in 1921.
What is polio?
200
This is one of few public works projects that took place during the Great Depression, and is also known as the Boulder Dam.
What is the Hoover Dam?
200
The name given to the day of the stock market crash on October 29, 1929.
What is "Black Tuesday?"
300
This was a term coined for empty pockets turned inside out.
What is a Hoover flag?
300
A sickness that many people died from after breathing in a lot of dust from the dust storms during the Great Depression.
What is pneumonia?
300
This is the term coined for the government programs enacted during FDR's presidency such as FDIC, CCC, TVA, NRA, AAA, etc.
What is "alphabet soup?"
300
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself" is a quote by this famous person.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
300
This was a warning sign of the stock market crash of 1929 because this new technology caused many factories to overproduce.
What is an assembly line?
400
This is the term that Bud mistakenly uses to describe a shantytown during the Great Depression.
What is "Hooperville?"
400
This is the name given to the day that a huge dust storm started in Chicago and ended in New York.
What is Black Sunday?
400
This was part of FDR's "2nd New Deal" that included government aid to those citizen 65 years old and older.
What is social security?
400
This is a term used to describe the rate of the estimated 1 out of 4 people who were unable to find work.
What is unemployment?
400
This is the phrase given to borrowing money to invest in the stock market.
What is buying on margin?
500
The city that became a "Hooverville" during the Great Depression that is mentioned in the Grapes of Wrath and that the "Migrant Mother" is known to have lived in under a bridge.
What is Bakersfield, CA?
500
The name given to some dust storms that could reach 10,000 feet high in the Dust Bowl.
What is a "black roller?"
500
This was part of FDR's "1st New Deal" and repealed the 18th Amendment (prohibition).
What is 21st Amendment?
500
This is a board game invented during the Great Depression that allowed people to play with money and real estate.
What is Monopoly?
500
This person does business with the NYSE on your behalf to sell and buy your stock.