Depression Game Cards
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- The new name for the Great plans during it's dust bowl storm era?
- dust bowl
- What year did states from Taxas and Dakota sufferfrom a sever drought?
- 1930
- What was thefro people who moved from place to place looking fro jobs?
- migrant workers
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waht was the name for farmers who were hit the hardest by the dust storm in
Oklahoma? - okies
- what was the name for the farmers who were hit the hardest by the dust storms in Arkansas?
- arkies
- What is the name of the child actress who starred in many 1930's films?
- Shirley Temple.
- What was the name of the first full-length animated film?
- Snow White and the seven dwarfs
- What was the name of the film Written by Judy Garland in 1939?
- Wizard of OZ.
- What was the name of the movie that showed the civil war in a romantic light?
- Gone with the wind.
- What did comedians in the 1930's call the radio?
- "Furniture that talks".
- What was the minimum wage paid per hour?
- 40 cents
- Maximum hours you were suposed to work?
- 44 hours.
- A new deal critic that was a raido priest was called?
- Father Coughlin
- What act set the minimum wage and maximmum hours?
- Fair labor standards act.
- What was believed by many people to give unions excessive power?
- New Deal.
- THe process in which a union representing a group of workers negotiate with managment for an improved contract is?
- Collective Bargaining.
- What is it called when government spends more than they bring in from income taxes?
- Deficit Spending.
- Work stoppage in which all workers would stop all production and refuse to work until their demands are met is called?
- Sit Down Strike.
- What is the name of the act that helped elderly and unemployed people?
- Social Security act.
- Law that protected workers from unfair managment practice is?
- Wagner act.
- What disease was FDR struck with?
- Polio.
- In 1928 FDR was elected govenor of what state?
- New York.
- Group of people that helped FDR create plans and programs?
- Brain Trust.
- Radio speeches given over the radio by FDR?
- Fireside chats.
- CCC stands for what?
- Civilian Conservation Corp.
- FERA stands for what?
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
- WPA represents what?
- Work Progress Administration
- NRA is what?
- National Recovery Administartion.
- Which act setup the FDIC?
- Banking Act of 1933.
- One of the most daring programs during the depression?
- TVA or Tennesse Valley Administration.
- The economic hard times that latsed from 1929 until 1941 are known as?
- Great Depression.
- Giving help to the needy is called?
- Relief.
- Hoover setup _________ to provide jobs to help people earn money?
- Public Work Programs.
- The _______ _______ Corporation loaned money to banks, railroads,and insurance companies to help keep them in buisness?
- Reconstruction Finance.
- The shacks where homeless lived were called________?
- Hoovervilles.
- A sum of money given to World War 1 veterans is called what?
- Bonus.
- The _____ ____ was a group of veterans who demanded their sum of money from the government?
- Bonus Army.
- Many people blamed ______ _______ for doing too little to help.
- President Herbert Hoover.
- The newspapers that the homeless covered themselves with to keep them warm were called_______ _______?
- Hoover Blankets.
- An empty pocket turned inside out was called_____ _____?
- Hoover Flag.