Where did people with no money get food during the Great Depression?
soup kitchens
Who was President of the US when the stock market crashed?
Herbert Hoover
What was the name given to the Great Plains region that suffered from little rain and strong winds in the 1930s
the Dust Bowl
Who was elected US President after Hoover that introduced government programs to help with the Depression?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President Roosevelt's plan to help the nation out of the Great Depression was called _______
The New Deal
Who was the author that wrote the novel Gone With the Wind?
Margaret Mitchell
Who was the African American big band leader and composer in the 1930s?
Duke Ellington
The CCC was part of FDR's New Deal to get America back to work. What type of work did they do?
Plant trees in national parks
Which New Deal program provided monthly payments to the elderly and people with disabilities?
Social Security
Who was the African American track star that won lots of gold medals at the Olympics in Germany in the 1930s?
Jesse Owens
This New Deal program put people to work building dams along rivers to provide electricity to rural southern areas
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
This New Deal program put people to work building roads and bridges and highways.
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Also known as Black Tuesday, this was one of the events that led to the Great Depression
Stock Market Crash
Which US President said "The economy will get better on it's own. It will just take time.
Herbert Hoover
The worst economic hardship of all time which began in 1920 and continued until the start of WWII
The Great Depression
The New Deal had three goals; _________ , recover, and reform.
Relief
