Great Depression & New Deal

What was this region of the country called during the Depression?

Name to describe a town of makeshift homes for the homeless often made out of cardboard and other scraps

Which New Deal agency created a guarantee for customer bank accounts in order to restore confidence in the banks?

Which of these factors helped to hide economic problems in the 1920s?

Reform was programs to correct problems in the economy and prevent future depressions

Who was the first female cabinet member?

Which New Deal Agency hired 2 million people to build airports, dams, schools, hospitals, and parks

Many people supported Hoover's handling of the Great Depression at its onset

Opponents of the New Deal believed that

FDR created the SEC to

Which New Deal program attempted to stimulate the economy by setting fair wages, hours, and prices for products?

What did the unemployment rate in the US rise to during the Depression?

Hoover believed that the responsibility for fixing the Depression relied on charitable handouts.

Relief was programs to stimulate the agriculture industry and the economy to end the depression

A long period of rising stock prices is known as a

Another name for a migrant worker during the Depression was...

Which New Deal agency provided work to young men aged 18-25 years old?

Who was the President before FDR?

National Industrial Recovery Act allowed business, labor, and the government to cooperate in setting up

Which of the following was not a cause of the Great Depression?

What caused Republicans to gain power in Congress in 1938?

What was FDR's first major challenge when he took office?

Why did the Bonus Army march on Washington D.C.?

What was the name of the American author who wrote about the dustbowl w/ "The Harvest Gypsies" and "The Grapes of Wrath"

Which New Deal program brought electricity to the south and created jobs by creating hydroelectric plants?

What was the name of the photographer who took this picture?

Newly homeless people put up communities of shacks they called

When was date of the stock market crash, often referred to as Black Tuesday?

How many terms did FDR serve as president?

FDR barely won the needed electoral votes in 1932.