JEOPARDY
1930s
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New Deal
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Gettin’ out of Debt
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Jobs 100 200 300 400 500
Stock Market
Government
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Hodge Podge 100 200 300 400 500
Final Jeopardy
What was The Tennessee Valley
Authority?
This was a program set up to help the poor by building
dams, planting forests, and setting up schools and
health centers in Tennessee.
What was the New Deal?
The name of Roosevelt’s famous reform
program to get American out of the
Depression.
What were fireside chats?
Conversations held by Roosevelt over
the radio to reassure Americans.
What was the Bank Holiday?
Roosevelt closed the banks to protect
them from failing. The closing was
called this.
What was the Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA)?
Planned development of the Tennessee Valley
Region
What is the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
A New Deal agency that still exists today
to protect bank deposits.
What was the Brain Trust?
This group of professors created ideas
for the New Deal.
What Gross National
Product?
The total value of goods and services
produced in a country in one year
What was the Social Security Act?
This New Deal Program assisted the
elderly with a pension plan.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC)?
Regulates the stock market.
What is buying on margin?
This is to pay a portion of a stock’s worth
and borrow the rest.
What is speculation?
Buying stocks or land in hopes of
making a profit when they are sold.
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Who are the elderly, disabled,
and the unemployed?
These people were helped by a
pension plan through the Social
Security Act. Name all three
groups.
What is the FDIC?
This corporation provided insurance to bank
depositors. It was designed to help prevent
another depression.
What is New Deal legislation?
This legislation allowed the government
to be more involved in the economy.
What is Rural Electrification ?
This administration improved American life
with labor saving products (washing machine,
water pump, electric stoves), electric lighting,
and entertainment/communications.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This was the immediate cause of the
Depression that caused millions of investors
to lose money.
What was Black Tuesday?
October 29, 1929 - the day when the stock
market crashed.
What is deficit spending?
This occurs when a government spends
more than it takes in from taxes.
What is: Overspeculators could not
repay their loans?
The banks closed for this reason:
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What were causes of the Great Depression?
High tariffs, over speculation, inaction of the
Federal Reserve, stock market crash of 1929.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
He said “Prosperity is just around the
corner.”
What were Hoovervilles?
Slums and shantytowns made of
cardboard were nicknamed this.
What is communism?
An economic and social system based on
government ownership so citizens are equal is
called…
What is methods Americans used to cope with the
depression?
Go to the movies, listen to “soap operas” on
the radio, read novels, go to soup kitchens.
What was the Bonus Army?
A group of veterans who marched in
Washington to demand their money was
nicknamed this.
What is The Dust Bowl?
The Great Plains earned this nickname as
the result of topsoil being blown away due
to overproduction and drought.
What is World War II?
This is what ended the Great
Depression.
Who is John Steinbeck
He wrote the Dust Bowl novel The Grapes
of Wrath
What is a tariff?
This was a tax on imports, used to
protect industry from foreign
competition.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
This was the U.S. Central Bank that uses
monetary policy to regulate the
economy.