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PALS Great Depressio
PALS Great Depression
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| New Deal program that paid farmers not to grow certain crops | Agricultural Adjustment Act |
| New Deal program that brought electricity to rural areas | Rural Electrification Act |
| New Deal program that created jobs for young men | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| New Deal program that provided retirement income for retired citizens and money for unemployment. | Social Security Act |
| a period of time with little or no rain | drought |
| destroyed large amounts of cotton grown on southern farms | boll weeevil |
| Who created the economic plan called the New Deal? | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) |
| an economic plan to lead America out of the Great Depression | New Deal |
| Who was the only president to be elected to 4 terms? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| How long is a presidential term? | 4 years |
| governor of Georgia who disliked FDR and his New Deal | Eugene Talmadge |
| economic crisis in the U.S.in the 1930's that began with the stock market crash | Great Depression |
| place where shares of ownership in corporations (businesses) are bought and sold | stock market |
| stock prices fell dramatically and millions of people lost all their money on this day | Black Tuesday |
| shacks where homeless people lived (named for President Herbert Hoover) | Hoovervilles |