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Alphabet

Question: What administration insured bank deposits if a bank failed?




Answer: FDIC or Federal Deposit Insurance Corp

Question: What administration gave federal money to the unemployed?
Answer: FERA or Federal Emergency Relief Admin

Question: What administration build very large projects? (Grand Coulee Dam)
Answer: PWA or Public Works Admin

Question: What administration expanded electric lines to rural areas where utilities thought it was unprofitable?
Answer: REA or Rural Electrification Admin

Question: What administration controlled flooding, provided electric, and improved farmland?
Answer: TVA or Tennessee Valley Authority 

Roosevelt

Question: What infantile disease struck Roosevelt as an adult?
Answer: Polio

Question: What did polio result in for Roosevelt?
Answer: Paralysis from the waist down

Question: What was Roosevelt's idea to provide for the elderly?
Answer: Social Security Act

Question: What were the conversations Roosevelt had with the country over radio called?
Answer: Fireside Chats

Question: Who was Roosevelt's first female cabinet member?
Answer: Francis Perkins

Dust Bowl

Question: How many years did the Dust Bowl exist?
Answer: A Decade

Question: What was the worst dust storm in all ten years of the Dust Bowl?
Answer: Black Sunday

Question: What did Westerners call people leaving from the Dust Bowl?
Answer: Okies and Arkies

Question: What caused the dust storms?
Answer: Over plowing and drought

Question: What were the two big cities affected by the dust storms that caused everyone in the country to pay attention?
Answer: New York and Chicago

People

Question: Who was the Louisiana senator who said "Share the Wealth" and wanted to tax the rich
Answer: Huey Long

Question: Who started CIU unions and represented whole industries?
Answer: John L. Lewis

Question: Who was the woman who photographed farm suffering?
Answer: Dorothea Lange

Question: Who claimed the AAA and NIRA unconstitutional?
Answer: The Supreme Court

Question: Who wanted to give the elderly $200 to spend every month?
Answer: Francis Townsend

Misc

Question: What were some criticisms of the New Deal?
Answer: Government too powerful, threatened freedoms, and laissez faire

Question: How many members of the Supreme Court did FDR want?
Answer: 15

Question: What are the rights of citizens  to political and social freedoms?
Answer: Civil Rights

Question: What is the method of boycotting work by sitting down at work and refusing to leave? 
Answer: Sit-Down strike

Question: What is the practice of spending more than is coming in?
Answer: Deficit Spending