Ch. 25 The Great Depression 6th Gr.

Built dams and generators, bringing electricity and jobs to the TN River Valley.

Used force to evict the Bonus Army from its Hooverville in Washington, D.C.

Created jobs building roads and airports

Which is true about the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)?

Which is NOT something critics of the New Deal claimed?

In what part of the U.S. did the Dust Bowl originate?

Critic of the New Deal who wanted the gov to nationalize the country’s wealth and resources

Which program did Eleanor Roosevelt convince FDR to create to provide jobs for young people?

Federal aid to farmers included

Which is NOT something that made FDR a uniqu president?

Buying stock with borrowed money, which must be repayed

What finally ended the Great Depression?

Senator from Louisiana who proposed the “Share the Wealth” program

Big band leader who played swing

How did FDR communicate with the American people?

Which New Deal program provided aid to the elderly, unemployed, kids and disabled?

Gen. George Custer used force to evict the Bonus Army from its Hooverville in Washington, D.C.

The most popular art forms of the Depression era

Roosevelt's “court packing act” unsuccessfully attempted to

What percentage of Americans were unemployed during the Great Depression?

Which New Deal program provided jobs planting trees and improving national parks?

T or F: A "Hooverville" is a skyscraper that has gone bankrupt.

Which is NOT an art form artists created in America during the Great Depression years?

Protest where workers occupy the factories they work in so scabs can’t take their jobs

Period immediately after Roosevelt’s inauguration in which he started the New Deal

What did the Emergency Banking Relief Act do?

famous photographer who took the picture "Migrant Mother"

Photographer who became famous during the Depression for her pictures of struggling Americans

What is the stock market called when it has declining, or falling, stock prices?

What was the theme in both Woody Guthrie's songs and Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath?

What was one way in which many families coped with the Great Depression?

African American educator appointed to the Roosevelt administration’s Black Cabinet

T or F: Hoover flag is an American flag with holes in it to show nobody could afford a new one

Which is NOT an idea soil conservation experts had to prevent further Dust Bowls?

What was NOT one of the causes of  the Dust Bowl?

Wrote songs of loss and sorrow during the Depression

Which was NOT a popular form of entertainment during the Great Depression?

T or F: It is generally agreed that the New Deal expanded the role of the federal government.

Economic recessions are normal, but they are shorter and less severe than depressions.

The normal up and down pattern of the economy

Wrote songs of loss and sorrow during the Depression

T or F: Many jobs were available for farmers who moved to California looking for work.

built roads, bridges, parks, dams, tunnels, airports, prisons, swimming pools, hospitals

What was the outcome of the election of 1932?

Secretary of Labor and first female cabinet member

State many farmers from the Great Plains migrated to seeking jobs during the Dust Bowl