SSUSH15, SSUSH16, SSUSH17, and SSUSH18 Vocabulary Quiz

The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.

• Great Depression

• Dust Bowl

• New Deal

• Stock Market Crash of 1929

Plunge in stock market prices that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.

• Great Depression

• New Deal

• Dust Bowl

• Stock Market Crash of 1929

Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community.

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry S. Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress.

• Hoovervilles

• Shantytowns

• Soup Kitchens

• Hoboes

A nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930s.

• Great Depression

• New Deal

• Dust Bowl

• Underconsumption

32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII.

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• Harry Truman

A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

• New Deal

• Second New Deal

• Social Security Act

• National Labor Relations Act

Wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962).

• Elizabeth Roosevelt

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Elisa Roosevelt

• Emma Roosevelt

The three goals of FDR's New Deal..

• Resources, Relief, Reform

• Relief, Rescue, Reform

• Relief, Recovery, Reform

• Reparations, Reform, Recovery

An agency created in 1933 to insure individuals' bank accounts, protecting people against losses due to bank failures.

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)