What was so great about it?
People
The Market and Banks
Hope this program helps (New Deal)
This and That
Vocab
100
What decade did the Depression occur in?
the 1930s
100
I believe in deficit spending to get a country out of a depression and convinced Franklin to do it!
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
100
This was created to insure deposits in banks
What is the FDIC?
100
This program helped farmers by raising prices for crops. The government often paid them not to plant.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
100
When the government spends more than it receives in income.
What is deficit spending?
100
A government set price to protect farmers from low crop prices
What is parity?
200
An area on the edge of a city in which people lived in makeshift houses.
What are shantytowns or Hoovervilles?
200
Thanks Eleanor for convincing your hubby to give me a job.
Who is Frances Perkins?
200
Risky investing in the market in hopes of making a quick profit.
What is speculation?
200
This was created to regulate the stock market.
What is the SEC? The Securities and Exchange Commission.
200
The Great Plains area that suffered from overproduction and a severe drought in the 1930s
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
This was created to generate electricity and control flooding in the Tennessee Valley
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
300
October 29th, 1929
What is Black Tuesday?
300
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
Borrowing money to buy stocks.
What is buying on margin?
300
Massive jobs creation program that put millions of men to work.
What is the Works Project Administration?
300
This happened to U.S. Gross Domestic Product and the unemployment rate during the Great Depression.
What is GDP went down and the unemployment rate went up?
300
She was the first female Cabinet member.
Who is Frances Perkins?
400
Name for men and boys who rode the rails looking for work.
What are hoboes?
400
Who is FDR?
400
FDR got on the radio to explain to the American people how banks work to prevent more panic runs. These talks became known as ...
What are fireside chats?
400
What were the three R's of the New Deal program.
What is relief, recovery and reform?
400
This novel described the struggles of living in the Dust Bowl and the migration of many of those folks to California to look for work.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
400
Length of time in FDR's administration that Congress passed more than 15 pieces of New Deal legislation.
first 100 days
500
World War I veterans who marched on Washington.
What is the Bonus Army?
500
Aliens are attacking Earth!
Who is Orson Welles?
500
A stock index of the NYSE's top 30 companies.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
500
This provides retirement income for elderly people.
What is social security?
500
List these presidents in order of their presidency.
FDR, Harding, Hoover, Coolidge
What is Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR?
500
Highest protective tariff in U.S. history passed in 1930
What is the Hawley-Smoot tariff?
600
If you lived in a city, these were two places one could go to get food, like bread and soup.
What are bread lines and soup kitchens?
600
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Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
600
This man was president at the start of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
600
This act protected workers right to join a union and engage in collective bargaining.
What is the Wagner Act?
600
This movie won Best Oscar in 1939.
What is Gone With The Wind?
600
This project in Arizona helped control flooding and generate power in California, Arizona, Nevada
What is Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam)?
700
name 3 New Deal Programs that are still around today
What is the FDIC, Social Security and the SEC
700
Who is Genghis Khan?
700
Name of FDR's programs to get the U.S. out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
700
This act of Congress created the FDIC.
What is the Glass-Stegall Act?
700
She was appointed as an advisor to FDR on minority issues.
Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
700
True or False. Some of the New Deal programs were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
What is True?