The Great Depression and the New Deal

Shantytowns created by the poor and homeless during the early years of the Great Depression

This New Deal legislation promised a pension (monthly payment) to retirees and the elderly

The FDIC and the Bank Holiday were both designed to end

Homeless individuals who hopped trains, looking for work, during the depression were

These men, working in the Saint Joe National Forest clearing dead trees, were probably hired by

The New Deal agency below that would most likely build a public school in a Kansas town in 1936

Government funded building projects are known as

Which of the following New Deal programs was a "reform" program?

He believed governments should spend money in order to stimulate the economy

Who is pictured below?

Legislation, programs, and agencies designed to bring relief, recovery, and reform in the 1930s

In _____________, a bank takes over a property if the owner has failed to make loan payments.

FDR's controversial court packing plan aimed to

Herbert Hoover's philosophy of the role of government could be summed up in the phrase

Louisiana Senator and critic of FDR and thought every family should be given $5000 a year

This group represented business leaders who didn't like the New Deal's role in the economy

FDR tried to reassure Americans and explain the New Deal through

The 1936 election was notable for which shift in American politics?

Migrants who fled Oklahoma for California were called

Areas of western Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma which suffered a severe drought in the 20s-30s