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What was a Fireside chat?
The bonus Army Marchers were
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The bonus Army Marchers were
Farmers
UNemplyed Union Workers
WW1 Veterans
Government Workers
2
What was a Fireside chat?
FDR's programs on the radio
Nightly job listings
Nightly food reports
Conversations in a Hooverville
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Question Roulette
THIS ONE
THIS ONE
THIS ONE
THIS ONE
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Percentage of people that were unemployed during the depression
10%
25%
75%
50%
5
FDR's plan to get the country through the depression
The Green New Deal
The New Deal
Welfare Capitalsim
The Fix
6
The fair labor act created
The 40 Hour work week
unions to be illegal
Equal pay for women
Hard Hat
7
The officer who threw tear gas to disperse Bonus Army Marchers
MacArthur
Eisenhower
Patton
Bradley
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When many people decide to withdraw their money from the bank at once
Credit
Market crash
Margin Call
bank run
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The stock market crash of 1929 showed the weakness in the American
Families
Economy
Readiness
Politics
10
In the 1930s the Great Plains became known as
America's Wheatland
The Dust Bowl
Breadbasket of America
Sodbusters
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Which is NOT TRUE about the CCC
Participants HAD to join the military
It built roadways in rural areas
Participants sent money home to their families
It provided jobs to young men
12
FDR's main goal in combating the depression
enter WWII
end poverty forever
get people back to work
humiliate Hoover
13
Which act created a national retirement system
The Social Security act
Give Your Job to the Young act
The Nation Helpers Act
the Get Out Geezer act
14
Nickname given to the shanty towns that many lived in
Roosevelt Land
Government Towns
Hoovervilles
Trumanvilles
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Who wrote the
Grapes of Wrath
about the dust bowl
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
John Steinbeck
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Which was not a cause of the Dust Bowl and people moving from the Midwest in search of work?
Over plowing
No barriers between farms
The market crash
Drought
17
This alphabet agency employed millions to complete various public work projects
The WPA
The NRA
The ABC
The CCC
18
Hobos were mainly known for
farming on the Great Plains
Riding the rails in search of work
Standing in line for bread
living in shanty towns
