GPS 17&18

Question 0

Recession

Answer 0

A period of slow business activity

Question 1

Bonus army

Answer 1

A group of World War I veterans and their families who protested in Washington DC in 1932 demanding immediate payment of a pension bonus that had been promised for 1945

Question 2

Twenty-first amendment

Answer 2

Constitutional amendment ratified in 1933 to repeal prohibition

Question 3

Civilian conservation corps

Answer 3

Established by Congress in 1933, this program put more than 2.5 million young man to work restoring and maintaining forests, beaches, and parks

Question 4

Agricultural adjustment administration

Answer 4

Established in 1933 to raise farm prices through government financial assistance

Question 5

Tennessee Valley Authority

Answer 5

Federal project to provide inexpensive electric power, flood control, and recreational opportunities to the Tennessee River Valley

Question 6

Public works program

Answer 6

Government-funded projects to build public facilities

Question 7

Revenue

Answer 7

Income

Question 8

Sitdown strike

Answer 8

Labor protest in which laborers stop working but refuse to leave the workplace

Question 9

Wagner act

Answer 9

Law passed in 1935 that aided unions by legalizing collective-bargaining and closed shops, and by establishing the National Labor Relations Board

Question 10

Dow Jones industrial average

Answer 10

Measure of average of stock prices of major industries

Question 11

Black Tuesday

Answer 11

October 29, 1929, the day on which the Great Crash of the stock market began

Question 12

Deficit spending

Answer 12

Paying out more money from the annual federal budget than the government receives in revenues

Question 13

Hundred days

Answer 13

Period at the start of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency in 1933, when many New Deal programs were passed by Congress

Question 14

Second new deal

Answer 14

Period of legislative activity launched by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935

Question 15

Business cycle

Answer 15

Periods in which a nation’s economy grows, then contracts

Question 16

Social Security system

Answer 16

System established by the 1935 Social Security act to provide financial security, in the form of regular payments, to people who cannot support themselves

Question 17

Hooverville

Answer 17

Term used to describe a makeshift homeless shelter during the early years of the Great Depression

Question 18

New deal

Answer 18

Term used to describe President Franklin Roosevelt’s relief, recovery, and reform programs designed to combat the Great Depression

Question 19

Dust Bowl

Answer 19

Term used to describe the central and southern Great Plains in the 1930s, when the region sustained period of drought and dust storms

Question 20

Great Crash

Answer 20

The collapse of the American stock market in 1929

Question 21

Great Depression

Answer 21

The most severe economic downturn in the nation’s history, which lasted from 1929 to 1941

Question 22

National debt

Answer 22

Total amount of money that the federal government borrows and has to pay back