The Great Depression Pt.2

Question 1

Required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings and made them liable for misrepresentations

Answer 1

Federal Securities Act

Question 2

Sought to raise crop prices by lowering production

Answer 2

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Question 3

Put young men aged 18-25 to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil-erosion and flood-control projects.

Answer 3

Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 4

Provided money to states to create jobs chiefly in the construction of schools and other community buildings

Answer 4

National Industrial Recovery Act

Question 5

spending more money than the government receives in revenue

Answer 5

Deficit Spending

Question 6

Governor of Louisiana who was the most serious challenge to the New Deal

Answer 6

Huey Long

Question 7

Social reformer who combined her deep humanitarian impulses with great political skills

Answer 7

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 8

Set out to create as many jobs as possible as quickly as possible.

Answer 8

Works Progress Administration

Question 9

Created specifically to provide education, jobs, counseling, and recreation for young people.

Answer 9

National Youth Administration

Question 10

Reestablished the NIRA provision of collective bargaining.

Answer 10

Wagner Act

Question 11

Set up national old-age insurance, unemployment compensation system, and aid to families with dependent children and the disabled.

Answer 11

Social Security Act

Question 12

America’s first female cabinet member

Answer 12

Frances Perkins

Question 13

an educator who dedicated herself to promoting opportunities for young African-Americans

Answer 13

Mary McLeod Bethune

Question 14

Commissioner of Indian affairs.

Answer 14

John Collier

Question 15

An alignment of diverse groups dedicated to supporting the Democratic Party.

Answer 15

New Deal Coalition

Question 16

A split from the AFL union.

Answer 16

Congress of Industrial Organizations

Question 17

Gone With the Wind

Answer 17

One of the most popular films of all time.

Question 18

Actor, director, producer, and writer who created a radio version of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds

Answer 18

Orson Welles

Question 19

Painter whose work includes American Gothic

Answer 19

Grant Wood

Question 20

African-American author who wrote Native Son

Answer 20

Richard Wright

Question 21

Novel which reveals the lives of Oklahomans who left the Dust Bowl and ended up in California where their hardships continued

Answer 21

The Grapes of Wrath