Great Depression Unit

During the Great Depression the overall unemployment rate was what?

Which of the two New Deal programs were found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?

This helped to create prosperity in a poverty stricken region by providing funds to build dams?

Which of the following reached a new high during Roosevelt's first term as president?

What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play in the FDR administration?

This is an arrangement in which consumers agree to buy now and pay later for purchases?

This authorized the Treasury Department to inspect banks and close those that were unsound?

This president was known for his involvement in scandal with the teapot dome?

Two projects completed by the Civilian Conservation Corps locally were?

Raising the price of crops helped people during the Great Depression because ____________?

This term refers to putting a small amount down on a stock and borrowing the rest of the cost?

This created an administration that set fair prices on many products and set labor standards?

This term refers to making risky business transactions on the chance of making a big profit?

This required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings?

To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden nightclubs known as what?

This put almost three million young men to work building roads or parks, and planting trees?

"Hoovervilles" were called that because of what?

The two major events that FDR faced in his presidency were?

The Great Migration refers to what?

By decreasing farm surpluses, New Deal policies helped to do what?

The Supreme Court ruled that the _______________ was unconstitutional.

The first action that Franklin D. Roosevelt took as President was what?

Which of the following reached a new high during President Roosevelt's first term as President?

In 1932 these two candidates ran for President?

This term refers to the Stock Market Crash of October 29, 1929?

This is the largest of the jobs programs for adult men building our infrastructure?

This reduced the flow of goods around the world due to increased taxes on imports and exports?

The Civilian Conservation Corps was nicknamed what?

The American public perceived many characteristics in President Roosevelt, but not what?

Which of the following of Roosevelt's ideas failed to become a law?

This is the period when unemployment skyrocketed for 1924 to 1940 and the economy plummeted?

This democrat lost the presidential election of 1928?

The most widely used measure of the stock market's health is what?

President Roosevelt called his radio programs that informed Americans about the New Deal what?

The overall unemployment rate for minorities such as African Americans and Mexican Americans?

This established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?

Which of the following pieces of legislation were found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?

________ used music to express the hardships of American life during the Great Depression.

Term for making extremely risky business transactions on the chance of making quick profits?

What is the term for buying a stock by paying a small % down and borrowing the remainder?

Who wrote the novel "The Grapes of Wrath"?

This candidate declared "Now this guarantees my election" after the Bonus Army incident?

The Dust Bowl occurred in what region of the United States?

This Republican won the presidential election of 1928?

These were used to keep crop prices higher in the McNary-Haugen bill?

This term is the name of the most widely used measure of the Stock Market's Health?

This term is used to describe the stock market crash of October 29, 1929?

This president's name was part of the word for shantytowns during the depression?

This provided direct relief in the form of food and clothing to the neediest people?

The Harlem Renaissance refers to what?