People

Question 1

Herbert Hoover

Answer 1

The president during the stock market crash and the great depression

Question 2

FDR

Answer 2

Two term governor of New York and a distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt

Question 3

Huey Long

Answer 3

Turned against FDR bc he wanted to be president so he proposed a nationwide social program called “share our wealth” but then he was assassinated

Question 4

Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 4

Used her influence in the democratic committee to urge the administration to give women government positions. She focused on social conditions/issues.

Question 5

Frances Perkins

Answer 5

The country’s first women cabinet member and she had a big role in the social security system

Question 6

Orson Welles

Answer 6

A producer on radio broadcasts that read off a fake war script

Question 7

Grant Wood

Answer 7

Painter during the great depression

Question 8

Dorothea Lange

Answer 8

Photographer who documented how the farmers and urban citizens had harsh living conditions