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Question 1

This experiment lasted until 1933, and would have made folks even more depressed if it weren’t for bootleggers

Answer 1

Prohibition

Question 2

Term for FDR’s attempt to get his way when one branch of the government held up some of his New Deal programs

Answer 2

court packing

Question 3

The government completely changed from this policy during the New Deal and got a lot more involved in people’s everyday lives

Answer 3

Laissez Faire

Question 4

How FDR told America about his ideas to fix the problems of the Depression

Answer 4

Fireside chats

Question 5

New Deal program implemented to help the elderly, disabled, and others who could not work

Answer 5

Social Security

Question 6

This program actually paid farmers not to grow things

Answer 6

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Question 7

Nickname for WWI veterans who wanted help from Congress

Answer 7

Bonus Army

Question 8

Made the Great Depression even more depressing for farmer’s on the plains

Answer 8

Dust Bowl

Question 9

When the government assumes the responsibility of taking care of certain citizens who cannot take care of themselves

Answer 9

Welfare state

Question 10

Hoover hoped money would do this and reach the needy through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Answer 10

Trickle-down

Question 11

Nickname for the farmers who moved west from the Dust Bowl

Answer 11

Okies

Question 12

Which New Deal had the most programs last through to the present day?

Answer 12

Second New Deal

Question 13

Name of the ideas FDR tried out to fix the Depression, but both of them only worked a little

Answer 13

New Deal

Question 14

Nickname for the shantytowns the homeless built to live in after getting evicted during the Depression

Answer 14

Hoovervilles

Question 15

What afflicted FDR and paralyzed him?

Answer 15

Polio

Question 16

FDR’s favorite New Deal program, it put more than 2 million men on the job

Answer 16

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Question 17

Name of the highest tariff ever, which helped start the Great Depression

Answer 17

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 18

1/4 of Americans suffered from this during the Great Depression

Answer 18

Unemployment

Question 19

The Securities and Exchange Commission was created to correct problems in this to prevent another crash

Answer 19

Stock market

Question 20

October 29, 1929

Answer 20

Black Tuesday

Question 21

2nd New Deal idea to ensure workers had a voice, through collective bargaining, at their jobs

Answer 21

Wagner Act

Question 22

Most popular type of home entertainment during the 1930’s, and how FDR primarily communicated with the American people

Answer 22

Radio

Question 23

Idea or belief that folks should not look to the government for help, they should help themselves if they had problems

Answer 23

individualism

Question 24

The only thing we needed to be afraid of, according to FDR in his first speech as President

Answer 24

Fear

Question 25

What finally ended the Great Depression once and for all

Answer 25

World War II

Question 26

State where the effort to electrify rural areas began through a New Deal program

Answer 26

Tennessee

Question 27

Unfairly blamed for the Great Depression

Answer 27

Herbert Hoover

Question 28

How many days it took FDR and Congress to start the 1st New Deal solutions

Answer 28

One hundred days

Question 29

New Deal programs that exist

Answer 29

Social Security
Wagner Act
**Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
*National Labor Relations Board
*Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
*Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)