Blank Jeopardy

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Vocabulary
Hoover and The Crash
Roosevelt And the New Deal
Life in the Great Depression
Programs
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What is bankruptcy?

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Financial failure caused by the inability to pay
ones debt
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What is a bonus?
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Extra payment

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What is a sit-down strike?
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Workers stay in the factory but stop production
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What is a payroll tax?
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A tax that removes money directly from workers
paychecks.
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What is overproduction?
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When the supply of manufactured goods exceeds the
demand
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What the name of the day that the Stock Market
crashed?

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Black Tuesday
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What was a major cause of the depression?
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Overproduction
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What is a Hooverville?
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Communities of run down shacks
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Give two things that families in crisis did.
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1. Fathers left their homes
2. People deserted their families
3. Wedding plans were put off
4. Less children
5. Many children suffered lifelong health problems
   from lack of food and dental care
6. Many children only attended school until they
   were 14

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What did the Bonus Army do?
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Marched on Washington to get the money that was
owed to them
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What happened to FDR when he was younger?
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He got polio and became paralized
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What was the name of the program that FDR set up?
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The New Deal
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What was the Bank Holiday?
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When FDR closed the banks to try to stop bank
failures
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What were the three main goals of FDRs New Deal?
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Relief, Recovery and Reform
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What was it called when FDR tried to put more
judges on the Supreme Court?
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Court Packing
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What was the unemployment percentage during the
Great Depression?
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25 unemployment
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What two groups of people had a hard time during
the Depression?
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Females and African Americans
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What did Eleanor Roosevelt do during FDRs
presidency?
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Criss-crossed the country serving as FDRs eyes
and ears
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What were the five years of bad weather in the
west called?
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The Dust Bowl
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Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
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John Steinbeck
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What is the Public Works Administration?
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Employed middle-aged skilled workers to work on
public projects, cost 4 billion
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What did the Agricultural Adjustment Act do?
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Paid farmers not to farm
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What did the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation do?
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Insured deposits in banks in order to restore
public confidence in banks
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What is the Social Security Act?
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Provided financial assistance to elderly,
handicapped, delinquent, unemployed paid for by
employee and employer payroll contributions
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What did the Tennessee Valley Authority do?
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A government program that ran a series of dams
built on the Tennessee River