1. Jeopardy

2. Shares in business ownership.

3. What are stocks?

4. An official authorization to suspend payment, as of debt; an officially authorized period of waiting.

5. What is moratorium?

6. A risky business venture involving buying or selling property in the hope of making a large, quick profit; making investments in the stock market.

7. What is speculation?

8. To return to a person’s country of birth or citizenship.

9. What is repatriation?

10. A government charity.

11. What is dole?

12. First woman in history to be elected to the cabinet.

13. Who is Frances Perkins?

14. A demagogue who wanted to nationalize banks.

15. Who was Father Charles E. Coughlin?

16. The senator who launched the Share Our Wealth campaign.

17. Who was Huey Long?

18. The republican candidate for president in 1936.

19. Who was Alfred Landon?

20. Headed the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

21. Who was Harry Hopkins?

22. A new electrical appliance that eased life in the 1930’s (aside from a refrigerator).

23. What is a washing machine?

24. This lured many Great Plains farmers to California during the dust storms.

25. What are jobs in agriculture?

26. The event that left investors unable to pay brokers when the stocks bought on margin lost their value.

27. What is the stock market crash of 1929?

28. The most damaging loss during the depression.

29. What is the loss of hope and pride?

30. This placed restrictions on the amount of money in circulation during the Depression.

31. What is the Federal Reserve?

32. Roosevelt didn’t want to lose the support of Southern whites, so he did not abolish this.

33. What is the poll tax?

34. FDR’s frequent radio talks.

35. What are fireside chats?

36. He was assassinated, so he never controlled the United States government.

37. Who is Huey Long?

38. Father Coughlin had this belief.

39. What is the wealth of a few should be redistributed?

40. Congress appropriated $500 million in aid during the Depression to be distributed by what agency.

41. What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?

42. What is the Bonus Army?

43. A group of jobless veterans who were demanding their bonus for serving in WWI. They marched to Washington DC to ask for their Bonus. Congress denied them and Hoover had the army force out the unarmed veterans.

44. How did electricity impact homes of the 1930’s?

45. Brought even to isolated regions of the country—everyone had electricity—fridge, toasters, irons, vacuums, etc.—made household chores easier.

46. The reason that FDR didn’t support an anti-lynching law.

47. What is he was afraid that he would alienate the Southern white leaders who strongly opposed such laws?

48. Name the things that the government provided as part of the Social Security Act.

49. --Instituting pension and survivor benefits for elderly and orphaned. --Gave aid to individuals injured in industrial accidents.

50. How did government payments for keeping farmland out of production cause tenant farmers to be driven from their homes?

51. Landowners took the land farmed by the tenant farmers out of production and refused to share the government subsidy with them.

52. FINAL JEOPARDY

53. In what way did radio programming in the 1930’s set a pattern that would be followed by television in later years?

54. Daytime radio included soap operas, panel discussions, and quiz shows. During the late afternoon, children’s programs came on. The evening was reserved for news programs, variety shows, comedy hours, dramatic presentations, and live musical performances.