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Vocabulary
The Great Depression
FDR/NEW DEAL
FDR/NEW DEAL
Miscellaneous
100
FDR's plan to end the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
100
Neighborhoods of shacks built by the homeless were name after this president
What are Hoovervilles?
100
True or false, FDR declared a bank holiday that closed banks in the U.S. for several days.
What is true.
100

This agency put thousands of unemployed young men back to work

What is the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC)

100
The cause of farmers struggling so much during the Great Depression
What is Overproduction 
200
A small piece of a business that anyone can buy or sell.
What is a stock?
200

The percentage of people unemployed during the Great Depression.

What is 25% or one in four.

200
The name of the New Deal program that employed a lot of artists and writers.
What is the Works Progress Administration
200
This agency regulates the stock market.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission? (SEC)
200

The 1920s had major changes to American society, what new trend allowed Americans to purchase things outside of their budget 

What is Installment plans/buying

300
A period when manufacturing is down, unemployment is very high, and a lot of banks and businesses close down.
What is a depression?
300
Besides the help from the New Deal, what truly ended the Great Depression.
What is WWII?
300
The name of the agency that insured money in banks: up to $5,000 in the 1930's, up to $100,000 today.
What is the FDIC?
300
This agency paid people not to grow crops in order to raise crop prices
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Agency?
300
What did the Wagner act have to do with?
What are unions?
400
A way of communication by the President of the United States to build trust between the people and the Government 

What is Fireside Chats 

400

What are 3 causes of the Great Depression?

What is farmers producing more crops than could sell, buyinig on credit, stock market crash, overproduction of factory goods?

400
What was one of the goals of the New Deal?
What is provide relief to those who were suffering, help economy recover, initiate reforms in banking and stock exchange?
400

This New Deal agency used a famous logo of a "Blue Eagle" to show that a business followed its codes of fair competition and "did its part."

What is the NRA 

400

What controversial group was known for its revival during the 1920-30s

What is the KKK
500
What was the event that sent farmers to California due to drought, winds and poor farming practices.
What is the Dust Bowl?
500

Defying the warnings of over 1,000 economists, President Hoover signed this 1930 act into law, which raised U.S. tariffs to record levels and triggered a global trade war that deepened the Depression.

What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?

500
This agency put people back to work building dams on the Tennessee River
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
500

The act that created the FDIC was called.

What is the Banking act of 1933/Glass-Stegall Act?

500
Besides providing people with retirement and pensions, what did the Social Security act do?
What is provide unemployment insurance and financial assistance to children and disabled?