American History Module 10 Review

During his first inaugural address, FDR gave one of the world’s most famous speeches known for the line, “___________.”

Strike at the Republic Steel plant in Chicago on Memorial Day, 1937; 10 people killed & 84 wounded; known as the ______.

Period of intense activity from Mar. 9 to Jun. 16 1933 where Congress passed more than 15 pieces of New Deal legislation

In 1938 the Committee for Industrial Organization was expelled from the AFL and changed its name to the _________.

John Steinbeck wrote __________ about the lives of Oklahomans escaping the Dust Bowl during the Depression.

The ___________ was created specifically to provide education, jobs, counseling, and recreation for young people.

By the late 1930s approximately __________ of the population attended the movies once a week.

was a critic of FDR & New Deal who proposed a nationwide social program called Share-Our-Wealth; assassinated in 1935.

In June 1934 Congress created the __________ to regulate the stock market.

By 1940 nearly __________ of American households owned a radio.

_________ granted Native Americans autonomy, restored some reservation lands to tribes, and led to changes in status.

put men aged 18 to 25 to work building roads & parks, planting trees, & helping in soil-erosion & flood-control projects

FDR’s advisers—a select group of professors, lawyers, and journalists came to be known as the __________.

One of the first worldwide radio broadcasts described the horrific crash of the ____, a German zeppelin, on May 6, 1937.

The ______, created under the Wagner Act, continues to act as a mediator in labor disputes between unions and employers.

The __________, a branch of the WPA, paid artists a living wage to produce public art.

The WPA program, the __________, gave support to writers such as Saul Bellow, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston.

__________ was a group of unofficial African American advisors to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

FDR had to scale back New Deal programs increasing unemployment from 7.7 million in 1937 to _____ in 1938.

The photograph “Migrant Mother” by __________ became one of the most recognizable symbols of the Depression.