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1930's
Great Depression and New Deal
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name given to the area of the country devastated by drought and wind storms in the 1930's | The Dust Bowl |
| He believed that the federal government should not take direct action to solve the economic crisis of the 1930's | President Hoover |
| Shanty towns that were built in parks and abandoned lots were known as | Hoovervilles |
| The collapse of the Stock Market led directly to | Bank Failures |
| The unemployment rate peaked at this rate in the 1930's | 25% |
| This banking reform helped to insure peoples deposits in the nation's banks | FDIC |
| She gathered information for President Roosevelt, traveled, wrote, and attacked social problems | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| This branch of government ruled many New Deal programs to be unconstitutional | The Supreme Court |
| This group of voters left the Republican Party to support President Roosevelt during the 1930's | African Americans |
| She became the Secretary of Labor and was the first woman to head an Executive office | Frances Perkins |
| Many farmers impacted by the drought in the Midwest left their farms to look for work in this state | California |
| Millions of Americans turned to this home appliance to escape from the realities of the Great Depression | Radio |
| This group of former soldiers demanded that they be paid early for their service in WWI | The Bonus Army |
| What were the three goals of the New Deal | Relief, Recovery, and Reform |
| Buying stock on credit is known as | Buying on Margin |
| He was a Priest with a popular radio show that was critical of the Roosevelt Administration | Charles Coughlin |
| He was a retired physician that came up with a plan to help the elderly in America | Francis Townsend |
| The former Governor of New York that suffered a polio attack and later became President of the United States | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Senator and Governor of Louisiana that began the Share our Wealth Society. He was assassinated in 1935. | Huey Long |
| She was a prominent African American activist and a member of Roosevelt's Black Cabinet | Mary McLeod Bethune |
| This New Deal program helped to find work building trails in the National Parks for unemployed Americans | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| This New Deal regulatory body was in charge of regulating Wall Street | Security and Exchange Commission |
| This was the largest peace time jobs program in U.S. History | Works Progress Administration |
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