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Abeka U.S. History 8
Ch. 19: The Rise of Big Government
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The president known as the "Great Humanitarian" | Herbert Hoover |
| Term given to the first three months or so of Roosevelt's presidency | The First Hundred Days |
| Closed banks until the danger of a bank run had passed | FDR |
| Name of the radio messages given by Roosevelt | fireside chats |
| Amendment that repealed prohibition and legalized the sale of liquor | 21st amendment |
| She became a U.S. delegate to the United Nations in 1945 | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Term for spending more than received from taxes and other revenues | deficit spending |
| What is a result of inflating the money supply? | Loses it's value and goods cost more. |
| About what percentage of the working force was unemployed throughout the 1930's? | 15% |
| When was Black Tuesday? | October 29, 1929 |
| Risky investments for the chance of making quick profit. | speculation |
| Roosevelt's economic plan for America. | New Deal |
| The Dust Bowl was drought-riddled land including the Texas panhandle, western Kansas, and... | Oklahoma |
| Provided jobs for young men that slept in barracks and wore uniforms | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| Welfare that provided work such as building roads, bridges, public buildings, parks and other facilities | Works Progress Administration |
| Government paid farmers not to plant crops | Agricultural Adjustment Act |
| controlled flooding and made hydroelectric power | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| The first woman to pilot a plane across the Atlantic | Amelia Earhart |
| Wrote the pro-socialist novel The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| Promoted "tax and spend" economics | John Maynard Keynes |
| Coordinated food relief in Europe | Herbert Hoover |
| Who began the New Deal? | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Portrayed a slanted view of the Depression in The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| Who was the most famous athlete of the "Golden Age of Sports"? | George Herman "Babe" Ruth |
| Which amendment repealed Prohibition? | 21st |
| name the New Deal program created to control flooding, conserve soil, and bring hydroelectric power to the mid-South? | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| What 1938 legislation dictated that the work week would not exceed 40 hours? | Fair Labor Standards Act |
| German airship that exploded in New Jersey | Hindenburg |
| Organized the Committee of Industrial Organizations and later became president of the CIO | John L. Lewis |
| Name given to socialist professors who advised President Roosevelt on his New Deal programs | "brain trust" |
| Who became head of the Communist Party, U.S.A.? | Gus Hall |
| The kidnapping of his child was a major news event | Charles Lindbergh |
| Secretary of Labor who questioned the programs of FDR | Frances Perkins |
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