BusinessCycle | | What was the highest import tax in history called? |
Sit-DownStrike | | An alliance of groups with similar goals. |
PublicWorksProgram | | What gave Government credit to a number of institutions such as large railroads and insurance companies? |
MaryMcLeodBethune | | Who was the first person to die in "The Grapes of Wrath"? |
ZoraNealeHurston | | Which act established the Social Security System? |
CivilianConservationCorps | | What act legalized union practices such as collective bargaining and closed shops? |
ClosedShops | | Who was a famous southern singer of the Depression? |
Demagogues | | Once a very popular man in the 1920's, but hated for putting many people out of jobs during the Depression. |
Hoovervilles | | What was Central and Southern Kansas known as between 1931 and 1940? |
DowJonesIndustrialAverage | | Who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"? |
SoapOperas | | Who was the main character in "Their Eyes Were Watching God"? |
JimCasy | | What were workshops open only to union members called? |
RoseofSharon | | What was the name WWI vets, who camped outside of Washington for their pensions, gave themsleves? |
IndianReorganizationAct | | One of the most well known Depression-era fantasty films starring Judy Garland. |
HenryFord | | A span in which the economy grows and then contracts. |
AmericanLibertyLeague | | Which act ended the Dawes Act of 1887 and gave Native Americans some of their land back? |
BonusArmy | | Writer of, "Their Eyes Were Watching God". |
Nationalization | | What Amendment repealed prohibition? |
Disney | | A Government takeover and ownership of banks and the redistribution of their wealth. |
TheGoodEarth | | What is another word for income? |
Twenty-FirstAmendment | | Who held the highest position of any African American woman during the New Deal? |
Hawley-SmootTariff | | What was October 29, 1929 called? |
Collateral | | A strike in which laborers stop working but refuse to leave the building. |
TennesseValleyAuthority | | A novel by Pearl Buck which was a saga of peasant struggle in China. |
WizardofOz | | Paying out more money from the annual federal budget than the government recieves in revenues. |
Steinbeck | | Who wrote "War of the Worlds"? |
ReconstructionFinanceCorporation | | Who was Janie Crawford's third husband? |
NewDeal | | An average of stock prices of major industries, was known as what? |
TeaCake | | Who was the most famous female photographer of the Depression? |
Revenue | | Who is the "preacher" in "The Grapes of Wrath"? |
DeficitSpending | | What were Government funded projects that built public facilities called? |
WaroftheWorlds | | Who was the second person to leave the Joad party in "The Grapes of Wrath"? |
GranmaJoad | | Which group, founded in 1934, spearheaded much of the New Deal opposition? |
HGWells | | An organization which put the unemployed to building and repairing roads, parks, airports and other facilities. |
WagonerAct | | What was Roosevelt's plan for relief, reform, and recovery called? |
JanieCrawford | | Who was Janie Crawford's second husband? |
WoodyGuthrie | | An item of value that a borrower agrees to forfeit to the lender if the borrower can't repay the loan. |
GreatDepression | | FDR's favorite program, which put ,pre than 2.5 million people to work maintaining forests, beaches, and parks, was called? |
BlackTuesday | | Tom's sister who is pregnant when her husband runs off in "The Grapes of Wrath". |
PennyAuctions | | The most severe economic dowturn lasting from 1929 to 1941. |
SocialSecurityAct | | What were shanty towns built with tar paper, cardboard, and scrap material called during the Depression? |
HundredDays | | What were daytime dramas sponsored mostly by soap companies called? |
JodyStarks | | An organization reacitivated a hydroelectric power plant and created many jobs in an underdeveloped region. |
TheDustBowl | | Which act established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC)? |
CivilWorksAdministration | | A cartoon company started during the Depression by a guy named Walt ______? |
Glass-SteagallBankingAct | | Farmers would keep bids low on farms being autioned off so they could give them back to the owner. |
TheGreatCrash | | Leaders who manipulate people with half truths, scare tactics, and deceptive promises. |
DorotheaLange | | What book was radio broadcasted and made people think the world was being invaded? |
Coalition | | Starting in March and ending June 1933, was known as what in FDR's administration? |
GrampaJoad | | Wha tis the collapse of the stock market known as? |