Great Depression

Question 1

a market that people can use to buy or sell shares of ownership in a company?

Answer 1

stock market

Question 2

For almost all of the Roaring Twenties, the stock market was a what market?

Answer 2

A bull market

Question 3

stock market with rising values?

Answer 3

bull market

Question 4

stock market with decreasing values?

Answer 4

bear market

Question 5

the process of purchasing stock with credit, hoping

to sell at a high enough price to pay the loan and make a profit

Answer 5

Buying on Margin

Question 6

October 29, 1929, stock prices collapsed, and the U.S. market crashed. This was known as what?

Answer 6

Black Tuesday

Question 7

Many banks what in the late 1920s and early 1930s because banks ran out of money when customers rushed to withdraw their deposits.

Answer 7

closed

Question 8

a severe economic crisis that lasted for the entire

decade of the 1930s

Answer 8

The Great Depression

Question 9

Hoover felt it was up to whom to offer relief during the Great Depression

Answer 9

private Individuals and institutions, not the government

Question 10

Groups of tin and cardboard shacks built by homeless families were nicknamed?

Answer 10

Hoovervilles

Question 11

a group of World War I veterans that demanded their

Bonus payments early

Answer 11

Bonus Army

Question 12

Which president took active steps to provide aids during the great depression?

Answer 12

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 13

In 1921 Roosevelt was struck with what?

Answer 13

polio

Question 14

a heartbreaking and painful disease that leaves you paralyzed from the waist down.

Answer 14

polio

Question 15

He drew on the advice of a group of progressive lawyers, economists, and social workers – known as the what to develop relief programs for
the state.

Answer 15

Brain Trust

Question 16

famous quote of Franklin Roosevelt.

Answer 16

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Question 17

Franklin Roosevelt’s legislative plan to end the Great Depression that included dramatic reforms of government agencies and powers

Answer 17

New Deal

Question 18

what were fire chats?

Answer 18

When Roosevelt did speeches on the radio when he was sitting next to a fireplace in the white house

Question 19

What was the FDIC?

Answer 19

was established to help

maintain stability in the United States financial system and insure bank deposits.

Question 20

The laws passed by Congress during the Hundred Days had three major
goals, known as the “three R’s” These were:

Answer 20

relief, recovery, reforms

Question 21

The CIVILIAN Conservation CORPS (CCC)

Answer 21

employed about 3 million
young men to work on projects that benefited the public, planting trees to reforest
areas, building levees for flood control, and improving national parks.

Question 22

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Answer 22

improved the lives of people
in several states, by building dams to promote flooding and soil conservation,
as well as to provide cheap electricity.

Question 23

Agricultural ADJUSTMENT ACT (AAA)

Answer 23

raised crop and livestock

prices by paying farmers to produce less.

Question 24

Grant of money from the government to a person or a

company for an action intended to benefit the public

Answer 24

Subsidies

Question 25

President Roosevelt appointed the first woman ever to serve in the cabinet

Answer 25

Frances Perkins

Question 26

The Public Works Administration (PWA)

Answer 26

employed people to

work on the construction of roads, shipyards, hospitals, city halls, and schools.

Question 27

The American Liberty League

Answer 27

drew members from both parties

and charged that New Deal laws gave the president too much authority.

Question 28

Huey Long’s White House dreams ended when he was

Answer 28

Assassinated in 1935

Question 29

was a critic of FDR who had a weekly

radio show and wanted FDR to deal more firmly with business.

Answer 29

Father Charles Coughlin

Question 30

Author, diplomat, humanitarian, and First

Lady of Franklin D. Roosevelt, she supported much New Deal legislation

Answer 30

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 31

passed in 1935, provided some financial

security for the elderly, the disabled, children, and the unemployed.

Answer 31

The Social Security ACT.

Question 32

Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress charged that FDR’s plan to add six new justices to the Supreme Court violated the what?

Answer 32

Constitution

Question 33

an area of the United States that suffered a severe drought during the 1930s

Answer 33

Dust bowl

Question 34

A photographer that was known for their photographs of migrant workers.

Answer 34

Dorothea Lange

Question 35

Migrant workers

Answer 35

• a person who moves from place to place to find

work harvesting fruits and vegetables

Question 36

To advance the concerns of African Americans, Roosevelt appointed African American advisors that became known as the what?

Answer 36

Black Cabinet

Question 37

in his famous novels, The Grapes of Wrath and Mice & Men.

Answer 37

John Steinbeck

Question 38

Daytime dramas sponsored by laundry detergents earned the nickname

Answer 38

soup operas

Question 39

is a story of a young girl’s escape from a bleak life in

depression-era Kansas to the magical land of Oz, was also filmed during this time.

Answer 39

The Wizard of Oz

Question 40

In the 1936 Olympic Games the Americans sent to the games one of the greatest athletes of all time – track and field star

Answer 40

Jesse Owens