Unit 5: The Great Depression Matching Worksheet
RFC
TVA
FDIC
Emergency Banking Act
Huey Long
Eleanor Roosevelt
AAA
NRA
NYA
FERA
Black Tuesday
WPA
Name: _________________________ Per. __
PWA
CWA
Wagner Act
Social Security Act
Dust Bowl
“packing the court”
CCC
SEC
Hoover
FDR
Bonus Army
Blue Eagle
1. CCC
created jobs in reforestation and conservation projects, including building roads and
bridges in national parks and forests .
2. Emerg. Bank Act
a conservative measure that extended government assistance to sound banks and
reorganized the weak ones.
3. Wagner Act
guaranteed workers’ rights to organize unions and forbade employers to adopt unfair
labor practices.
4. Eleanor Roosevelt
As First Lady, she pushed for women’s rights, demanding reforms.
5. RFC
established by President Hoover, it lent federal funds to banks, insurance companies,
and railroads in a “trickle down” stimulus.
6. Black Tuesday
panicked investors dumped their stocks at any price causing a severe crash in the stock
Market.
7. SEC
Federal agency with authority to regulate trading practices in stocks and bonds.
8. TVA
Federal regional planning agency established to promote conservation, produce
electric power, and encourage economic development in southern states.
9. Blue Eagle
insignia on products made by companies who participated in the NRA program.
10. Dust Bowl
Dust storms blew away millions of tons of topsoil, despoiling the land and darkening
the sky 1,000 miles away.
11. WPA
established in 1935, it set up work relief programs to assist the unemployed and boost
the economy.
12. FDR
In the first hundred days of his presidency, Congress passed the legislation creating the
New Deal program.
13. NYA
a WPA agency that gave part-time jobs to high school and college students enabling
them to stay in school and do productive work.
14. Huey Long
Louisiana Senator who wanted more comprehensive social welfare policies and to be
the President, but was assassinated.
15. FDIC
part of the Emergency Banking Act, it guaranteed bank deposits up to $2,500.
16. FERA
it established national system of relief that furnished funds to state and local agencies.
Directed by Harry Hopkins, it spent over $3 Billion before it ended in 1935.
17. AAA
established to combat the depression in agriculture caused by crop surpluses and low
prices, it subsidized farmers who agreed to restrict production.
18. Hoover
President who believed that voluntary, private action was preferable to federal
intervention.
19. PWA
provided work relief and stimulated the economy by building schools, hospitals,
courthouses, airports, dams, and bridges.
20. packing the court
President FDR’s attempt to add Judges who supported the New Deal to the Supreme
Court.
21. NRA
created to halt the slide in prices, wages, and employment by suspending antitrust laws
and authorizing industrial and trade associations to draft codes to promote business.
22. Social Security Act
it provided unemployment compensation, old-age pensions, and aid for dependent
mothers and children and the blind.
23. Bonus Army
unemployed WWI veterans who assembled in Washington DC to demand payment of
service bonuses.
24. CWA
New Deal agency that hired laborers to build roads, teachers to staff rural schools, and
singers to give public performances.
Unit 6: The Great Depression (Chapter 10 pg. 244-266)
Name: _________________________ Per. __
*Match the terms below to the correct definition by writing the term on the line:
RFC
AAA
PWA
CCC
TVA
NRA
CWA
SEC
FDIC
NYA
Wagner Act
Hoover
Emergency Banking Act
FERA
Social Security Act
FDR
Huey Long
Black Tuesday
Dust Bowl
Bonus Army
1. ___________________
Eleanor Roosevelt
WPA
“packing the court”
Blue Eagle
3. ___________________
created jobs in reforestation and conservation projects, including building roads and bridges in
national parks and forests .
a conservative measure that extended government assistance to sound banks and reorganized the
weak ones.
guaranteed workers’ rights to organize unions and forbade employers to adopt unfair labor practices.
4. ___________________
As First Lady, she pushed for women’s rights, demanding reforms.
5. ___________________
6. ___________________
established by President Hoover, it lent federal funds to banks, insurance companies, and railroads in a
“trickle down” stimulus.
panicked investors dumped their stocks at any price causing a severe crash in the stock market.
7. ___________________
Federal agency with authority to regulate trading practices in stocks and bonds.
8. ___________________
Federal regional planning agency established to promote conservation, produce electric power, and
encourage economic development in southern states.
insignia on products made by companies who participated in the NRA program.
2. ___________________
9. ___________________
10.___________________ Dust storms blew away millions of tons of topsoil, despoiling the land and darkening the sky 1,000
miles away.
11.___________________ established in 1935, it set up work relief programs to assist the unemployed and boost the economy.
12.___________________ In the first hundred days of his presidency, Congress passed the legislation creating the New Deal
program.
13.___________________ a WPA agency that gave part-time jobs to high school and college students enabling them to stay in
school and do productive work.
14.___________________ Louisiana Senator who wanted more comprehensive social welfare policies and to be the President,
but was assassinated.
15.___________________ part of the Emergency Banking Act, it guaranteed bank deposits up to $2,500.
16.___________________ it established national system of relief that furnished funds to state and local agencies. Directed by
Harry Hopkins, it spent over $3 Billion before it ended in 1935.
17.___________________ established to combat the depression in agriculture caused by crop surpluses and low prices, it
subsidized farmers who agreed to restrict production.
18.___________________ President who believed that voluntary, private action was preferable to federal intervention.
19.___________________ provided work relief and stimulated the economy by building schools, hospitals, courthouses, airports,
dams, and bridges.
20.___________________ President FDR’s attempt to add Judges who supported the New Deal to the Supreme Court.
21.___________________ created to halt the slide in prices, wages, and employment by suspending antitrust laws and
authorizing industrial and trade associations to draft codes to promote business.
22.___________________ it provided unemployment compensation, old-age pensions, and aid for dependent mothers and
children and the blind.
23.___________________ unemployed WWI veterans who assembled in Washington DC to demand payment of service bonuses.
24.___________________ New Deal agency that hired laborers to build roads, teachers to staff rural schools, and singers to give
public performances.