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$100 Question from New Deal Programs

This program was created in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley.

$100 Answer from New Deal Programs

What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?

$200 Question from New Deal Programs

This public work program gave the unemployed jobs building or repairing roads, parks, airports and provided a psychological and physical boost to its 4 million workers.

$200 Answer from New Deal Programs

What is the Civil Works Administration (CWA)?

$300 Question from New Deal Programs

This program was formed in order to boost the declining prices, helping businesses and workers and also allowed trade associations in many industries to write codes regulating wages, working conditions, production, and prices. It also set a minimum wage.

$300 Answer from New Deal Programs

What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)?

$400 Question from New Deal Programs

This environmental program put 2.5 million unmarried men to work maintaining and restoring forests, beaches, and parks.

$400 Answer from New Deal Programs

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?

$500 Question from New Deal Programs

Led by Harry Hopkins, a former social worker, this agency sent funds to depleting local relief agencies.

$500 Answer from New Deal Programs

What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)?

$100 Question from The Great Depression

The day in which the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929 to begin the depression is known as this.

$100 Answer from The Great Depression

What is Black Tuesday?

$200 Question from The Great Depression

He was President of the United States at the start of the Great Depression?

$200 Answer from The Great Depression

Who is President Hoover?

$300 Question from The Great Depression

This was the result of decades of inappropriate farming techniques that caused major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands.

$300 Answer from The Great Depression

What is the Dust Bowl?

$400 Question from The Great Depression

The novel, The Grapes of Wrath , focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, and was written by this Great Depression era writer.

$400 Answer from The Great Depression

Who is John Steinbeck?

$500 Question from The Great Depression

These villages were often formed in unpleasant areas and consisted of hundreds of shacks and tents that were temporary residences of those left unemployed and homeless by the Depression.

$500 Answer from The Great Depression

What is a Hooverville?

$100 Question from WW II

Adolf Hitler was head of this political party in Germany?

$100 Answer from WW II

What is the Nazi Party?

$200 Question from WW II

World War II started when Germany invaded this country?

$200 Answer from WW II

What is Poland?

$300 Question from WW II

The Battle of Normandy began on June 6, 1944, better known as this day.

$300 Answer from WW II

What is D-Day?

$400 Question from WW II

This was the secret project to develop the first atomic bombs in the United States during World War II.

$400 Answer from WW II

What is the Manhattan Project?

$500 Question from WW II

These were the leaders of the U.S., UK, and Soviet Union, that were present at the Yalta Conference

$500 Answer from WW II

Who are Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin?

$100 Question from Home Front

This was a method that controlled the size of one's allotted portion of the resources being distributed during World War II.

$100 Answer from Home Front

What is rationing?

$200 Question from Home Front

The increased birth rate after the war resulted in this generation of people.

$200 Answer from Home Front

What is the Baby Boom Generation.

$300 Question from Home Front

These gardens consisted of vegetables, fruits and herbs and were planted at private residences to reduce pressure on the public food supply.

$300 Answer from Home Front

What are Victory Gardens?

$400 Question from Home Front

Internment camps were created for this minority group in the United States.

$400 Answer from Home Front

Who are Japanese Americans?

$500 Question from Home Front

This was the name of the cultural icon that represented the women in the workforce during the war.

$500 Answer from Home Front

Who is Rosie the Riveter?

$100 Question from FDR

FDR served this many years as president.

$100 Answer from FDR

What is 12 years (1933-1945)?

$200 Question from FDR

FDR was preceded and succeeded by these presidents, respectively.

$200 Answer from FDR

Who are Presidents Hoover and Truman?

$300 Question from FDR

FDR was afflicted with this disease?

$300 Answer from FDR

What is polio?

$400 Question from FDR

President Roosevelt ratified the 21st Amendment that ended this?

$400 Answer from FDR

What is prohibition?

$500 Question from FDR

In one of his famous speeches, President Roosevelt said this day, “will live in infamy.”

$500 Answer from FDR

What is December 7, 1941 (Bombing of Pearl Harbor)?

Final Jeopardy

This British economist believed that government spending could help a faltering economy; his theories helped shape New Deal legislation.

Final Jeopardy Answer

Who is John Maynard Keynes?