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C1-$100 3 letters 3 letters - $100 What was FDR’s (Dem) platform in 1932? Repeal prohibition Stop the “Hoover” depression Balanced budget Economic & social reform
C1-$200 3 letters 3 letters - $200 What was FDR’s (Dem) slogan in 1932? I pledge you, I pledge myself to a New Deal for the American people.
C1-$300 3 letters 3 letters - $300 Who advised FDR and authored much of the New Deal legislation? The Brain Trust Young professionals Called FDR’s Kitchen Cabinet
C1-$400 3 letters 3 letters - $400 What major political shift happened in the 1930’s because use of FDR? African-Americans began voting for the Democrats
C1-$500 3 letters 3 letters - $500 What were FDR’s 3 R’s for the country? Relief, recovery, reform These are the basis of the New Deal
C2-$100 In Congress In Congress - $100 Special (emergency) meeting of Congress that ground out a myriad of mediocre legislation? 100 days Congress
C2-$200 In Congress In Congress - $200 These Progress ideas were embraced in the New Deal? Minimum wage, unemployment insurance, old-age insurance, restrictions on child labor, conservation of natural resources
C2-$300 In Congress In Congress - $300 This act established the FDIC which insured bank accounts up to $5,000? Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
C2-$400 In Congress In Congress - $400 In Louisiana he wanted to make every man a king (give him $5,000? Huey Long
C2-$500 In Congress In Congress - $500 This Supreme Court Case shot down the NRA? Schechter
C3-$100 Acronyms Acronyms - $100 Employment for 3 million uniformed young men living in gov. camps? CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
C3-$200 Acronyms Acronyms - $200 The 1 st major effort to deal with adult unemployment. $ 3 billion granted? FERA Federal Emergency Relief Act
C3-$300 Acronyms Acronyms - $300 This New Deal Agency eventually spent $11 billion on buildings, roads, bridges, etc.? WPA Works Progress Administration
C3-$400 Acronyms Acronyms - $400 Under this act, industries were to work out fair codes, labor was given the right to organize and indirect recovery resulted? NRA National Recovery Act
C3-$500 Acronyms Acronyms - $500 This called for the damming of the Tennessee River to provide electricity as well as jobs? TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
C4-$100 Alphabet Soup Alphabet Soup - $100 To loan money so people could buy homes? FHA Federal housing Administration
C3-200 Alphabet Soup Alphabet Soup - $200 In 5 years 350,000 of these people fled ruined farms going to California? Oakies & Arkies
C3-$300 Alphabet Soup Alphabet Soup - $300 Passed by Congress to protect the public from Wall Street frauds, deception & manipulation? SEC Security Exchange Commission
C3-$400 Alphabet Soup Alphabet Soup - $400 To provide security for old age as well as for the blind, physically handicapped, and fatherless children? SSA Social Security Administration
C3-$500 Alphabet Soup Alphabet Soup - $500 Another name for The Wagner Act which revitalized the rights of Labor in 1935? NLRB National Labor Relations Board
C4-$100 Wacko Wacko - $100 John L. Lewis established this to represent unskilled workers within the AFL? CIO Congress of Industrial Organizations
C4-$200 Wacko Wacko - $200 Who ran against FDR in 1938? Alfred Landon
C4-$300 Wacko Wacko - $300 What was FDR’s big miscalculation in 1937? Trying to add members to the Supreme Court (Packing the Court)
C4-$400 Wacko Wacko - $400 Also in 1937 there was a depression within the depression, what was it called? The Roosevelt Recession
C4-$500 Wacko Wacko - $500 What was the most damning indictment of the New Deal? It failed to cure the Depression. National debt soared
C4-$100 Review Review - $100 In 1831 he opened a 30 year war of words that are said to have fired the opening shot of the Civil War, in his paper the Liberator? William Lloyd Garrison
C4-$200 Review Review - $200 What milestone event happened in 1808 in the U.S.? Legal importation of slaves ended
C4-$300 Review Review - $300 About how many freed blacks lived in the So. Before the Civil War? ¼ million, about the same as the North
C4-$400 Review Review - $400 What was the result of Nat Turner’s rebellion in 1831? Fear & hysteria of a slave uprising
C4-$500 Review Review - $500 Garrison’s idea of a separate No. & So. Was in direct opposition to this ideal and this man? The Constitution Daniel Webster