What Was the Great Depression questions
What is CWA?
Civil Works Administration - provided short term jobs
What is CCC?
Civilian Conservation Corps - young unemployed hobos earned high school diplomas
What is the Hoover Dam?
Colorado River provides electric power/irrigation - funded by President Herbert Hoover
What is FERA?
Federal Emergency Relief Agency - gave money to those in need
Who was the only president to serve four terms?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What was the worst financial disaster in the modern world?
Great Depression
What is the HOLC?
Homeowners Loan Corporation - keep from losing homes
What is one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's most famous quotes?
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
How many banks failed by 1933?
11,000
Who was Dorothea Lange?
1935 photographer;"Migrant Mother"-32 year old woman with children; sold car tires for food
How many people became hobos?
250,000 teenagers; some as young as eleven
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
5th cousin Theodore Roosevelt; 1921 polio; paralyzed; not seen in public in wheelchair
How many free meals were given out in New York City?
82,000
What is AAA?
Agricultural Adjustment Act - paid farmers to limit food production
What happened on December 7, 1941?
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor- Oahu, Hawaii
What is another name for the 1920s?
Jazz Age, Roaring 20's, and the New Era
What is the NRA?
National Recovery Administration - minimum wage; ended child labor; limited work hours
What was the SSA?
Social Security Act -money after retirement
What did Franklin D. Roosevelt establish?
TERA - Temporary Emergency Relief Administration
What is the TVA?
Tennessee Valley Authority - built dams on Tennessee River; electricity and irrigation
Where were the stocks bought and sold?
Wall Street in New York City
What was mulligan stew?
anything into the pot
What was a Hooverville?
areas full of shanties named after President Herbert Hoover
What made it easier and faster to make cheap products?
assembly line
Why did people lose their houses and farms?
banks needed their money and people could not pay
Why were hobos paid so little?
because there were so many of them
What is a penny auction?
bidding ridiculously low prices
What was the New Deal?
changes Roosevelt made his first 100 days in office
What was the telegraph?
electric signals were sent over a wire
What was Franklin D. Roosevelt's first action as president?
end Prohibition
Who was Frances Perkins?
first woman elected to the United States Cabinet post
What was the unemployment rate in 1928?
four percent
Who ran one of the first soup kitchens?
gangster, Al Capone
What is the mafia?
gangsters
What strong belief guided President Herbert Hoover?
government should never offer money directly to the people
How much of the country was in poverty in 1932?
half
Why was the "penny auction" created?
helped out a neighbor whose farm had been lost to the bank
What game are stocks similar to?
hot potato
What was the false rumor that was spread on October 24, 1929, Black Thursday?
hundred of millionaires were jumping to their deaths
What are speakeasies?
illegal bars
What is prohibition?
illegally selling alcoholic drinks
Why had nearly half the banks in the United States failed by 1933?
invested too much money in stocks that were now worthless
What is the term of a Supreme Court justice?
life
Why did the people scornfully known as "Okies" leave their homes?
lost farms during the Dust Bowl
What are bootleggers?
making or illegally smuggling alcohol
What board game became popular in 1930 because of its free entertainment?
monopoly
Why were charities not helpful?
need was too big
How were outsiders discouraged from bidding on auctioned properties?
neighbors hung a noose nearby
Why did the young leave their homes?
one less mouth to feed
Why was food wasted?
people could not afford; farmers could not afford to harvest and they weren't selling
Why did the banks have trouble too?
people that had loans could not pay them back, so they were broke too
What did one "alphabet agency", CCC, use young unemployed men to do?
planted trees and fought fires in national forests and parks
What was referred to as a "Hoover flag" during the Depression?
pocket turned inside out to show owner not have a penny
What was a "Hoover Hog"
poor man's bacon; armadillo
What did the United States government make illegal in 1920?
sell alcoholic drinks
What were shanties?
shacks built from whatever was available; no running water/ electricity- diseases spread
Why were angry crowds lined up outside the banks?
they wanted their money back
Who are stockbrokers?
traded stocks for other people
How did people get food?
trash, had their children beg at stranger's doors
What is a hobo?
travel country looking for jobs; hitch train rides; some froze to death because trains no heat
What was involved in the famous 1637 early bubble?
tulip bulbs in Holland
What groups were getting poorer?
unskilled factory workers and farmers
What are wets?
wanted to end Prohibition
Why did women and minorities suddenly have new opportunities in 1940?
workers were needed to build ships and airplanes during World War II
What were Franklin D. Roosevelt's three R's?
Relief, Recovery and Reform
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
Roosevelt's wife, women's rights and racial equality advocate; My Day newspaper
Who developed the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
What was the Dust Bowl?
Black Sunday; April 14, 1935; buried alive and drought
What was Black Thursday?
October 24, 1929 Stock prices fell fast and all people wanted to sell stocks at the same time
What was the worst day in the United States economy?
October 29, 1929; Black Tuesday
