Chapter 15
The New Deal
Jeopardy
Amanda J McDaniels
Please choose a category
The First New
Deal
The Second
New Deal
Important
People
Culture
Impact of the
New Deal
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Credits
Protected bank deposits up $5000
(Today accounts are protected up to
$250,000)
What is the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (or FDIC)?
Aided farmers and regulated crop
production
What is the Agricultural Adjustment
Act (AAA)?
Provided jobs for single males on
conservation projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC)?
Created jobs on government
projects.
What is the Public Works
Administration (PWA)?
Insured loans for building and
repairing homes.
What is the Federal Housing
Administration (FHA)?
Provided a pension for retired
workers and their spouses and
aided people with disabilities.
What is the Social Security
Administration?
Quickly created as many jobs as
possible-from construction jobs to
positions in symphony orchestras.
What is the Works Progress
Administration (WPA)?
Established a minimum hourly wage
and a maximum number of hours in
the workweek for the entire country.
What is the Fair Labor Standards
Act?
Supervised the stock market and
eliminated dishonest practices.
What is the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC)?
Defined unfair labor practices and
established the National Labor
Relations Board to settle disputes
between employers and employees.
What is the Wagner Act?
A social reformer who combined her
deep humanitarian impulses with
great political skills.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
One of the most famous
documentary photographers of the
1930’s and took this picture.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
America’s first female cabinet
member.
Who is Frances Perkins?
African-American educator who
dedicated herself to promoting
opportunities for young African
Americans.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
Appointed commissioner of Indian
affairs and created the Indian
Reorganization Act of 1934 to help
restore Indian ownership and
culture.
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Who is John Collier?
Movies, art, literature, and radio
offered this to the people living
through the Great Depression.
What is an escape?
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh starred
in this movie, which was a sweeping
drama about life among Southern
plantations owners during the Civil
War.
What is Gone with the Wind?
This branch of the WPA paid artists a
living wage to produce public art
and increase public appreciation of
art and promote positive images of
American society.
What is the Federal Art Project?
One of the most renowned radio
programs in history that panicked
many Americans, especially in NYC
when the electricity went out
directly following the broadcast.
What is Orson Welles’ “War of the
Worlds” broadcast?
John Steinbeck received assistance
from the Federal Writers’ Project to
publish this epic novel.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
One of the most important legacies
of the New Deal and has assumed
responsibility for the social welfare
of it’s citizens.
What is the Social Security System?
This was established as part of
environmental conservatism to
prevent disastrous floods in the
Tennessee Valley and to harness
water power to generate electricity.
What is the Tennessee Valley
Authority?
A massive amount of spending for
these items is what really ended the
Depression.
Who are guns, tanks, ships, ships,
airplanes, and equipment to fight in
WWII?
Liberal critics felt the Roosevelt
didn’t do enough to eliminate
_____________________.
What is social and economic
inequality?
Conservatives of the New Deal
believed that Roosevelt’s policies
made the government
___________________.
What is too large and too
powerful?