1920s and 1930s

15. What was the "brain trust"?

6. What is a slowdown of economic activity that is not as severe as a depression?

2. Which government agency encouraged farmers to cut production in order to raise prices?

13. What was FDR's program that included massive government intervention in all aspects of the economy?

16. In what year did the stock market crash?

12. What was the closing of financial institutions to calm some of the economic panic?

23. Who wanted to pack the Supreme Court with like-minded justices?

22. Who was elected on the slogan "return to normalcy"?

7. What is government welfare?

4. Which government agency provided jobs in areas of power production in the south-eastern U.S.?

21. What is the illegal making and selling of alcohol?

5. What is purchasing stock by paying cash for only a part of the price and borrowing money for the rest?

17. What was not a cause of the Great Depression?

14. Who was not a Republican president in the 1920s?

19. Who left behind moral restraints and lived their sinful lifestyle openly?

8. What is buying something with the hope of being able to sell it later at a higher price?

1. Rightly or wrongly, who received most of the blame for the Depression?

18. What scandal ended in the first cabinet member being convicted of a crime committed in office?

20. What amendment prohibited alcohol and was eventually repealed?

24. What was NOT an ideological change brought about by FDR's presidency?

11. Who was the first to fly by himself over the Atlantic Ocean?

10. What was the march on Washington D.C. by WWI vets?

3. Which government agency provided jobs for the unemployed in building parks, hiking trails, campgrounds, etc.?

25. What is NOT a way the automobile changed the way Americans lived in the 1920s?

9. What is the area of the plains that experienced severe droughts and dust storms?