Economic
Trouble
Hardship
and
Suffering
Herbert
Hoover
FDR
Politics of
the 1930’s
The 1st
New Deal
100
100
100
100
100
100
200
200
200
200
200
200
300
300
300
300
300
300
400
400
400
400
400
400
500
500
500
500
500
500
Economic Hardship: 100
• Buying stocks without the capital to do so,
having to borrow to purchase.
• Buying on Margin
Economic Trouble: 200
• DOUBLE JEOPARDY
• The measure of the stock market’s health,
a statistical compilation.
• Down Jones Industrial Average
Economic Trouble: 300
• 10-29-29.
• Black Tuesday
Economic Trouble: 400
• Any three financial causes of the Great
Depression.
• Vary
Economic Growth: 500
• Provided farmers with price-supports on key
crops such as wheat, corn, and cotton. This bill
was vetoed by Hoover.
• McNary-Haugen Bill.
Hardship and Suffering: 100
• “little towns consisting of shacks”
• Shantytown
Hardship and Suffering: 200
• Plagued by terrible farming conditions,
farmers often abandoned farms in the
Great Plains because of…
• The Dust Bowl
Hardship and Suffering:300
• Men who wandered the country hitching
rides on railroad cars and sleeping under
bridges?
• Hoboes
Hardship and Suffering: 400
• Hoover was opposed to this concept—he
favored “rugged individualism”
• Direct Relief
Hardship and Suffering: 500
• Took this picture?
• Dorothea Lange
Herbert Hoover: 100
• Hoover believed the depression would end
with
• Volunteerism and individualism
Herbert Hoover: 200
Herbert Hoover: 300
• DAILY DOUBLE
• The Great Engineering achievement of the
1920’s, built in Nevada.
• Hoover Dam
Railroads: 400
• Cartoon analysis
•
Herbert Hoover: 500
• Herbert Hoover’s most ambitious attempt
to deal with the depression?
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation
(1932)
FDR: 100
• Suffered from?
• Polio
FDR: 200
• His handling of this crisis after it was
botched by Hoover and MacArthur
signaled his presidential victory?
• Bonus Army
FDR:300
• Roosevelt used these to control public
opinion and convey his ideas about the
depression?
• Fireside Chats
FDR: 400
• Cartoon Analysis
Robber Barons and Giants: 500
• Certain men are destined and
predispositioned for wealth and power.
• Social Darwinism
Political Corruption: 100
• Leader of the Tammany Hall Political
Machine
• Boss Tweed
Political Corruption: 200
• Artist who launched a crusade against the
Tammany Machine?
• Thomas Nast
Political Corruption: 300
• Talked about giving kids a ball field, and
helping those who had been burned out by
fire…a precinct captain in the Tammany
Ring?
• George Washington Plunkitt
Political Corruption: 400
• Cartoon Analysis
Political Corruption: 500
• The building that best exemplifies the
corruption and excess of the Machine
governments?
• New York City Courthouse
Unions and Strikes: 100
• The most destructive of the late 19th
century strikes. Disrupted travel and
damaged the labor union movement due
to its impact on regular people.
• Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Unions and Strikes: 200
• Occurred as a result of wages being
slashed and the mandated rent for living in
the company town staying steady.
• Pullman Strike
Unions and Strikes 300
• An unknown person tossed a bomb into a
crowd killing several policeman.
• Haymarket Affair
Unions and Strikes: 400
• Andrew Carnegie’s brutal treatment of
workers exposed at this devastating strike.
• Homestead Strike
Unions and Strikes 500
• The “assailants” tried
And executed for their role
In the ____________.