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Great Depression I (Mid)
The New Deal (Mid)
The Great Depression II (Mid)
Alphabet Agencies (Easy)
Great Depression III (Mid)
100

Buying stocks with borrowed money in hopes that prices would rise is known as what?

Overspeculation

100
the four day period that allowed the government to inspect banks to see if they were healthy enough to reopen.
What is the banking holiday.
100

Oct. 29, 1929

What is the day the stock market crashed.

Black Tuesday.

100

This agency gave young adults employment to work on various conservation projects.

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps. CCC.

100
The Dust Bowl affected this group of people the most.
Who are farmers.
200
The President at the start of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover.
200

What was the major criticism of the New Deal?

Its cost, or deficit spending. 

200

High winds and drought hit the country's farm belt and led to this:

Dust Bowl

200

This insures money that is deposited into banks.

What is the FDIC. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

200

What inexpensive form of entertainment became hugely popular during the Depression?

Motion pictures/Movies

300

What tariff raised taxes on imported goods and caused other countries to retaliate, worsening the Depression?

Smoot–Hawley Tariff

300

What were the 3 R's?

Relief 

Reform 

Recovery 

300

Another term for homeless camps that sprang up during the Great Depression. 

Hoovervilles. 

300

This agency brought electricity to the Tennessee Valley and built dams. 

What is the TVA. (Tennessee Valley Authority)

300

The name for the people who fled the Dust Bowl for California. 

Okies

400

What was it called when panicked Americans rushed to withdraw their money from banks?

Bank runs

400

The Supreme Court declared that some of the New Deal's programs were unconstitutional. What was FDR's plan to get around this?

He tried to pack the Supreme Court

400

WWI army veterans that went to Washington to get a promised bonus.

The Bonus Army.

400

This agency paid farmers NOT to farm some of their land.

What is the AAA. (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)

400

What was it called when Mexican nationals and Mexican Americans were forced out of the U.S.?

Mexican Repatriation

500

He wrote the Grapes of Wrath


(The Grapes of Wrath was about a family fleeing the Dust Bowl.)

John Steinbeck

500

What was the lasting impact of the New Deal?

It increased the power and scope of the Federal Government. 

It led to the Government taking a larger role in people's lives. 

500

Mexican-Americans were deported en masse during the Great Depression. What was this called?

Mexican Repatriation.

500

This regulates the Stock Market to this day. 

The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)

500

The name for unemployed people who rode trains looking for work?

Hobos