Government officials illegally leased public lands containing Naval oil reserves at this location.
What is Teapot Dome, Wyoming?
100
Using a small cash down payment, investors used this method of purchasing stocks in hopes that the stock would rise faster than they needed to pay for them.
What is On Margin?
100
This day marked the day of the stock market crash.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
Claiming that the American people had been served a raw deal by their previous president, he promised Americans a New Deal.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
This plan proposed by FDR would add more justices to the Supreme Court. It ended up dividing his party.
What is the court packing plan?
200
This pact guaranteed world peace following WW1.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
200
This is the act of guessing the future price of a stock or product.
What is speculation?
200
This is the act of rushing to the bank to withdraw money.
What is a Bank Run?
200
In this time period, Congress passed 15 major "new deal" initiatives designed to get the economy back on track.
What is the first hundred days?
200
This is the idea that a government can spend its way out of a bad economy.
What is Keynesianism?
300
Workers did one simple task over and over again as a product went down a conveyor belt.
What is the Assembly Line?
300
This was the first product of Ford's assembly line.
What is the Model T?
300
Severe drought in the Mid-West caused this natural disaster.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
This term refers to the collection of acronyms used to put Americans back to work.
What is Alphabet Soup?
300
She was the first female cabinet member.
Who was Frances Perkins?
400
This is the idea that lowering the tax rate will eventually yield higher tax revenues.
What is supply side economics?
400
In this work environment, workers were not required to join a union.
What is open shop?
400
These veterans marched on Washington in hopes of relieving their financial issues.
What is the Bonus Army?
400
This environmental new deal initiative put Americans to work planting trees and improving America's National Parks.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
400
This labor union offered a union for unskilled laborers.
What is the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations)?
500
This is the concept of allowing employees to purchase healthcare and pension plans through an employer.
What is welfare capitalism?
500
A surging economy.
What is a Bull Market?
500
This Steinbeck novel follows a family from Oklahoma to California in the height of the depression.
What is "The Grapes of Wrath"?
500
This New Deal initiative brought roads, bridges, dams and electricity to the American Southeast, one of the poorest regions of the country.
What is the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?
500
This Louisiana Governor proposed massive redistribution of wealth to solve the nation's economic crisis.