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Great Depression and New Deal
What is the definition of Migrant Worker?
What are Subsidies?
Great Depression and New Deal
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What are Subsidies?
Payments specifically given to farmers
Projects like highways, parks, & libraries for public use
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What is the definition of Migrant Worker?
Leader who has near complete control over government
Worker who had to move from place to place
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Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
Margaret Mitchell
John Steinbeck
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What is Investing?
Payments (specifically) given to farmers
To commit money in the hopes of making more money in the future
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Nearly 400,000 Dust Bowl farmers migrated to which state?
Oklahoma
California
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How was FDR able to reach the public?
Fireside Chats
Press Conferences
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Stock Exchange?
A system of buying and selling stock
Payment for retired people
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How did President Hoover react to the Great Depression?
He thought it was a wave that would wash over
He did everything he could to fix it
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Herbert Hoover authorized additional federal spending on which projects?
New housing
Public works
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What is a Pension?
Payment for retired people
To fail to meet an obligation, especially a financial one
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Who was President during the beginning of the Great Depression?
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
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What was the Dust Bowl?
Payment for retired people
Environmental disaster in Southern Great Plains
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Which U.S. region suffered an environmental disaster and became known as the Dust Bowl?
Great Plains
West Coast
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Who was Roosevelt's "eyes and ears"?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
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When did the Stock Market cash?
1923
1929
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What is a Dictator?
Worker who had to move from place to place
Leader who has near complete control over government
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What is Fascism?
Leaderr who has near conplete control over government
The set of ideas stresses the glory of the nation above individual needs.
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Which organization did Congress grant the power to punish dishonest stock dealers?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Security and Exchange Commission
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What is Defaulting?
Payment for retired people
To fail to meet an obligation, espeically a financial one
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What is Public Works?
Projects like highways, parks, and libraries used to create jobs
Worker who had to move from place to place
