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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- What is the term for when people lose confidence in a bank and rush to withdraw their money?
- What act gave the President broad powers to control banking policies and to reopen banks as he saw fit? When was it passed?
- Who was the first President to make extensive use of modern means of communication with the people?
- What board game was popular during the Great Depression?
- In December 1933, what act did President FDR sponsor that legalized the sale of liquor, repealing Prohibition (18th Amendment)?
- In the 1920s, what was much of the prosperity of the age based on?
- What is the term for when the government spends more than it earns?
- What was the name of President FDR's spending and jobs program? What socialist did FDR base this program on?
- During the Great Depression, what three things sprang up to meet the needs of the poor?
- In 1921 while vacationing at his summer home in New Brunswick, Canada, Franklin D. Roosevelt fell into the water while sailing and developed a chill which led to a severe case of what? What was the name of FDR's wife who traveled and spoke around the country because of his sickness?
- What organization established by the "New Deal" was dedicated to controlling flooding, conserving soil, and bringing hydroelectric power to the mid-South?
- What did newspapers call the first three months or so of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency?
- In the election of 1928, who was the Republican candidate that was a self-made millionaire from a small town in Iowa who favored prohibition?
- What was the average yearly rate of unemployment in the years of the Great Depression? What were the years for the Great Depression?
- Instead of paying the full price of an item at the time of purchase people paid onlya small monthly payment on the item each month called a what?
- What novel described the plight of the "Okies," farm families from western Oklahoma who went to California in search of jobs? Who wrote it?
- What was the practice of making risky investments for the chance of making a quick profit?
- What was the practice of buying stock with as little as 10% down and paying the rest with a loan?
- In 1932, who campaigned on the Democratic ticket for the Presidency, pledging himself "to a new deal for the American people?"
- What effectively shut off the supply of credit that had sustained the economic boom?