People

Question 1

Herbert Hoover

Answer 1

the president of the United States when the great depression started, did almost nothing about it

Question 2

FDR

Answer 2

the president of the US after Herbert Hoover, made a bunch of new deals to try and wrangle the US out of the depression; Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 3

Fireside Chats

Answer 3

radio broadcasts made by FDR to lift up American spirits

Question 4

Polio

Answer 4

a virus-born sickness that paralyzed FDR

Question 5

Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 5

the wife of FDR and an advocator for the new deal programs, was an activist

Question 6

Black Cabinet

Answer 6

FDR’s cabinet of black men and women representing African Americans

Question 7

Ralph Bunche

Answer 7

a member of the black Cabinet and a critic to the new deal to make sure it was fair to his fellow colored folk

Question 8

Mary McLeod Bethune

Answer 8

a member of the black cabinet who directed the National Youth Administration and was the first African American woman to lead a federal agency

Question 9

Marian Anderson

Answer 9

an opera singer who sung on the steps of the Lincoln memorial because everywhere else refused to take her due to being black

Question 10

Frances Perkins

Answer 10

a woman who fought for the rights of workers in the new deal and was a cabinet member for FDR

Question 11

Dorothea Lange

Answer 11

a famous photographer who took pictures of how the great depression affected people in America