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- What did the CCC do to help protect the soil from wind and erosion?
- What were two important books about the Great Depression/Dust Bowl? Who wrote them?
- What New Deal agency was created to help farmers improve their farming practices, reduce production, raise prices of crops, and give farmers a voice in the government?
- True or false: The New Deal still impacts us today?
- How many Fireside Chats did FDR give?
- Witch government agency was developed to give federal money to local governments to see up things like soup kitchens, breadlines, shelters, etc.?
- True or false: the first color movie came out during the Great Depression?
- What caused the Dust Bowl - not just drought - what did people do to kind of help cause it?
- What college sport became very popular during the Great Depression?
- What did FDR use to get his Fireside Chats out?
- What was one advantage to living on the farm during the Great Depression?
- the group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington in 1932 was called the
- One of the first things FDR did was close the banks - what was this called?
- How many new laws did FDR pass in his first 100 days.
- What act was passed to assist the elderly and serve as the Government Funded Retirement System?
- As creditors foreclosed on nearly one million farms between 1930 and 1934, some farmers destroyed their crops in a desperate attempt to
- when the senate voted down a bill the promised the immediate payment of $1,000 bonus to each veteran of World War I, some veterans
- in 1932 president hoover asked congress to set up the reconstruction finance corporation to allow the government to
- president Herbert Hoover did not want the government to create as many new jobs as the millions of unemployed people needed because that would require
- During the Depression, charities set up ____________ to give poor people a meal