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Emergency Banking Act
Which act was intended to save the nation's banking system?
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Black Cabinet
What African American group worked with the Roosevelt administration to influence government policy?
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Over Planting and plowing soil with too little water
What was the primary cause of the dust storms during the 1930s?
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Hoovervilles
What were the shanty towns named sarcastically named after President Hoover called?
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Civilian Conservation Corps
What organization employed young men to plant forests and build roads in 1933?
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True
True or False, to some extent did African Americans make significant gains during the Great Depression?
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Europe was in a depression, so wheat exports went down
In 1931, why did the price of wheat dropped significantly?
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Bonus Army
What protest movement involved World War One veterans demanding their service bonuses to help them through the depression?
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WPA
Which program under the New Deal gave work to artists?
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38%
In 1934 what percent of Blacks were unemployed?
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Black Sunday
What was the name given to the worst dust storm in history?
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Roger Babson
Which economist predicted the stock market crash?
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fireside chats
What was something FDR did to give confidence to the American people?
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Mexicans and Filipinos
Which two ethnic groups made up half the workers in California fields?
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The Grapes of Wrath
Which piece of literature is most well known from the times during the Dust Bowl?
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Black Tuesday
What was the worst single day in the history of the stock exchange called?
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Dorothea Lange
Who was the photojournalist that took pictures during the Great Depression under the WPA?
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Mary McLeod Bethune
Who was the leader of FDR’s Black Cabinet?
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Okies
What was a nickname for the people who moved to California because of the Dust Bowl?
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1:4
What was the was the ratio of people out of work compared to those in work?
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