1930s Review Game

What event is seen as the beginning of the Great Depression?

Number 1

What was the name given to these homes?

Number 2

What was the name of President Roosevelt’s program to get the country out of the Depression?

Number 3

What college did Andy Bernard graduate from on The Office?

BONUS BLITZ

What amendment created prohibition? What

amendment repealed it?

Number 4

How did FDR tell the nation about his New Deal

programs?

Number 5

Why were tenant farmers upset with the New Deal?

Number 6

Finish this line: “Greed is ____________.” – Gordon Gecko

BONUS BLITZ

Number 7

How does the government help big business supply-side economics?

Number 8

What New Deal program provides funding for the elderly after they retire and is still

around today?

Graz and Gina in 70 years

How did Eleanor Roosevelt help women during the 1930s?

Number 9

BONUS BLITZFrom what local college did Detweiler earn

his masters degree from?

What was the name given to the African Americans that FDR put

into his Cabinet?

Number 10

What did the Dust Bowl force Okies to do?

Number 11

Number 12

What amendment created women’s suffrage?

BONUS BLITZOn the famous “I need more cowbell” SNL skit, what ‘70s group and song are being

portrayed?

What is a sub-prime loan?

Number 13

What did the Indian Reorganization Act do?

Number 14

Number 15

Why did the Bonus Army go to Washington D.C. in 1932?

BONUS BLITZWhat actress played the little girl in the

movie E.T.?

Number 16

What was the name given to the African American literary and artistic movement of

the 1920s?

Number 17

Define “buying on margin.”

Number 18

What New Deal program created a bank holiday to fix the banking crisis?

BONUS BLITZName the three famous singers and famous

actor who started together on the Mickey Mouse Club.