Chapter 31
Across
- 4. Though FDR didn't support an anti-lynching law, he did establish a "_____" of major black leaders
- 6. Poor farming practices (like dry farming) coupled with high winds led to the _____ throughout the 1930s
- 8. Roosevelt's popular radio addresses to the American people were known as "_____"
- 9. FDR's secret weapon was his wife _____, a "champion of the dispossessed".
- 11. Father _____ led the conservative charge against the New Deal
- 12. allowed people to borrow most of the cost of the stock, making down payments as low as 10%.
- 13. Major labor organizer of this period, founder of the CIO = _____
Down
- 1. The New Deal created so many changes to America that it might rightly be called the _____
- 2. The Judiciary Reorganization Bill (also known as the _____) was an attempt by FDR to change the makeup of the Supreme Court and was roundly condemned
- 3. The _____ of 1933 proposed to solve the "farm problem" by reducing agricultural production by paying farmers a subsidy not to farm parts of their land
- 4. October 29, 1929 (also known as _____), was the day the Stock Market crashed
- 5. The Depression's most famous photograph (Migrant Mother) was taken by _____, paid for by the works progress administration
- 7. The _____ was Steinbeck's most famous novel, documenting the Dust Bowl and one family's trek to CA
- 8. In probably FDR's best speech, he motivated America by reminding them that "the only thing we have to fear is _____".
- 10. The _____ lasted from 1929-1939, or even 1941 depending on which historian you ask.