1. This is Jeopardy

2. The Great Depression & the New Deal (1929 - 1941)
Important People
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The Great Depression
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Vocab
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The New Deal
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Acronyms
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3. Money taken directly from a worker’s paycheck.
Vocab for 100
Money taken directly from a worker’s paycheck.
What is payroll tax?

4. Vocab for 200
This is how President Roosevelt talked to the nation and kept them informed
What Are Fireside Chats?

5. Vocab for 300
The right of a union to negotiate wages and benefits for all of its members
What is a Collective Bargining?

6. Vocab for 400
Head of the United Mine Workers, and later formed the CIO or Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Who was John L. Lewis

7. Vocab for 500
Social Security provides four things for the people of the USA. These are three of them.
What is old-age insurance, help to dependent children, unemployed, and disabled people?

8. Important people for 100 Francis Townsend
Person that called for a system of government pensions
Francis Townsend

9. What is she sang at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday?
Important People for 200
Marian Anderson did this.
What is she sang at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday?

10. Important People for 300
Catholic priest who opposed Roosevelt’s economic policies.
Who was Charles Coughlin?

11. Important People for 400
Famous photographer that recorded the Dust Bowl experiences.
Who was Dorothea Lange?

12. Important People for 500
First Lady who championed women’s rights.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?

13. The Great Depression for 100
October 29, 1929, is known as Black Tuesday because this happened on this day in history.
What was the stock market crash?

14. The Great Depression for 200
This is how the Great Depression affected women.
What is that more of them entered the workforce?

15. The Great Depression for 300
During the Great Depression, films like King Kong were popular for this reason.
Daily Double!
What was that they helped people forget their troubles?

16. The Great Depression for 400
In response to the Great Depression, African Americans in the South were likely to do this.
What was they moved to the North?

17. The Great Depression for 500
These were two causes of The Great Depression.
What was overproduction of farm goods, consumer goods, and overspending by much of the American public?

18. What was he closed America’s banks for four days?
The New Deal for 100
This is what Roosevelt did the day after he was inaugurated.
What was he closed America’s banks for four days?

19. The New Deal for 200
One of the following was NOT part of the New Deal.
Old-age insurance
Minimum wage laws
Laissez faire
Aid to dependent children
What was laissez faire?

20. The New Deal for 300 This is what Old Age Insurance did for people.
What is that it guaranteed people a pension?

21. The New Deal for 400 These are known as the three R’s of the New Deal.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?

22. The New Deal for 500 What was Mexican Americans
The New Deal actually did more harm than good to this group of people.
What was Mexican Americans

23. Acronyms for 100
Hired city dwellers to work in America’s national parks, forests, wilderness areas, and countryside planting trees, building reservoirs, constructing parks, and digging irrigation canals.
What was the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)

24. Acronyms for 200 The WPA did this.
What was it put people to work building public buildings and roads?

25. This is what did the FDIC did.
Acronyms for 300
This is what did the FDIC did.
What was it guaranteed $2,500 in your bank account if there was anything that happened to the bank?

26. Acronyms for 400 This is what the TVA did.
What is that they built dams along the Tennessee Valley to control flooding and provide power?

27. Acronyms for 500
The NRA or National Recovery Administration tried to do this during the 1930’s.
What was keep prices stable while boosting unemployment and buying power of the consumer?

28. This is Final Jeopardy!!!! Possible Answers
Many businesses went bankrupt in the 1930’s. In our discussions we talked about the “cycle of disaster” that was unstoppable during this decade. Describe this “cycle of disaster” for business and the American people & what made it unstoppable.
Possible Answers
Sorry, question only this time. Look it up!