Unit 7 - Great Depression

Question 1

Beginning of 1929 - when American entered World War II, period when US suffered worst and most prolonged economic crisis in our history

Answer 1

Great Depression

Question 2

Failure of US stock market, happened on Black Tuesday, marked the beginning of the Great Depression

Answer 2

Great Crash

Question 3

October 2, 1929, day the US stock market failed

Answer 3

Black Tuesday

Question 4

President of the United States when the Great Depression began, blamed for the Great Depression

Answer 4

Herbert Hoover

Question 5

Communities of cardboard shacks, shantytowns occupied by people who last their homes, developed in and around American towns and cities

Answer 5

Hooverville

Question 6

Conditions existed in Great Plains, late 1920’s - early 1930’s, caused by decades of overfarming and years of drought, helped cause thousands of Americans to lose their farms

Answer 6

Dust Bowl

Question 7

Addition to the US Constitution, moved date of presidential inauguration from March 4th to January 20th, shortened time that a lame duck president remained in office

Answer 7

20th Amendment

Question 8

Addition to the US Constitution, repealed the 18th Amendment, ended Prohibition, added mostly for economic reasons

Answer 8

21st Amendment

Question 9

At 102 stories, it was for a long time the tallest free-standing structure in the world, symbol of hope for the future for Americans in 1930’s

Answer 9

Empire State Building

Question 10

Gloomy song written for the President who lost the election in 1932, sadly it epitomized his only term in the White House

Answer 10

“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”

Question 11

The biggest of the public works projects of the early Depression, spanned the Colorado River, provided cheap electricity for many people in the Southwest, later named after the President who was in office at the beginning of the Great Depression

Answer 11

Boulder Dam

Question 12

The conservative idea that you shouldn’t rely on the federal government, you fix your own problems and take care of others, President at the beginning of the Great Depression pushed this idea that they should rely on this to get them through the economic crisis

Answer 12

Rugged individualism

Question 13

When you get what you need from the government, President when the Great Depression began gave a lot out despite pushing rugged individualism, President believed the government should not be doing this

Answer 13

Direct relief

Question 14

Law passed by Congress at the beginning of the Great Depression, raised taxes on imported goods to the highest level in history

Answer 14

Hawley-Smoot Act

Question 15

Reconstruction Finance Corporation, federal agency made to help American businesses (especially banks) by making loans to stabilize them

Answer 15

RFC

Question 16

Federal agency created a law, made to help homeowners and prevent foreclosures on homes and farms

Answer 16

Home Loan Bank Act

Question 17

Group of WWI vets who, early in 1932, congregated at the capital to ask the government for early payment of money due to be received in 1945, treated roughly by US troops, causing the President to lose more support

Answer 17

Bonus Army

Question 18

President of the United States elected in 1932 who instilled hope in the American people and guided the nation through the Great Depression

Answer 18

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 19

Song played at the Democratic National Convention in 1932 when the delegates chose a promising candidate to run for the presidency later that year. When that candidate won the presidency, it became the theme song of the Democratic Party

Answer 19

“Happy Days Are Here Again”

Question 20

Muscular disease which the President elected in 1932 was stricken with as a young man. It left him with limited use of his legs and made him the only disabled President in history

Answer 20

Polio

Question 21

Type of cabinet of the President elected in 1932 because it included Democrats and Republicans

Answer 21

Bipartisan

Question 22

Informal advisors of the President elected in 1932. They were economics, political science, and sociology professors from Ivy League Colleges

Answer 22

Brain Trust

Question 23

Beginning of presidential administration which started in 1933 during which an incredible amount of legislation was passed to fight the Great Depression

Answer 23

Hundred Days

Question 24

One of the first important acts of the president who was elected in 1932 which was to close all the banks in America until they could be assessed by the government and allowed to reopen if sound

Answer 24

Bank Holiday

Question 25

Weekly radio program which the president elected in 1932 created and used to keep Americans in the loop and to reassure them that American would improve

Answer 25

Fireside Chats

Question 26

What the president who was elected in 1932 told Americans was the only thing they had to fear

Answer 26

Fear

Question 27

What the president who was elected in 1932 called his programs aimed at fighting the Great Depression. The term is similar to one used by a former President for his Progressive policies

Answer 27

New Deal

Question 28

Secretary of State appointed by the president elected in 1932. He served in the Senate for almost 30 years and had almost no experience with foreign affairs, but he did a good job regardless

Answer 28

Cordell Hull

Question 29

Secretary of Labor, first woman appointed (by the president elected in 1932) to a cabinet position in history

Answer 29

Frances Perkins

Question 30

Secretary of the Interior appointed by the president elected in 1932, honest, hard to get along with, did a good job managing America’s natural resources

Answer 30

Harold Ickes

Question 31

Secretary of Agriculture appointed by the president who was elected in 1932, nicknamed “Pig Killer”

Answer 31

Henry Wallace

Question 32

Close personal friend and advisor of the president who was elected in 132, former social worker, believed the government should create jobs then give money to the poor

Answer 32

Harry Hopkins

Question 33

First Lady whose husband was the president who was elected in 1932, tireless supporter of workers, the poor, minorities, most influential woman in America during the Great Depression

Answer 33

Eleanor Roosevelt