Unit 5: The Great Depression Matching Worksheet Name: ______Per. __
RFC AAA PWA CCC
TVA NRA CWA SEC
FDIC NYA Wagner Act Hoover
Emergency Banking Act FERA Social Security Act FDR
Huey Long Black Tuesday Dust Bowl Bonus Army
Eleanor Roosevelt WPA “packing the court” Blue Eagle
1. CCC created jobs in reforestation and conservation projects, including building roads and
bridges in national parks and forests .
2. Emerg. Bank Act a conservative measure that extended government assistance to sound banks and
reorganized the weak ones.
3. Wagner Act guaranteed workers’ rights to organize unions and forbade employers to adopt unfair
labor practices.
4. Eleanor Roosevelt As First Lady, she pushed for women’s rights, demanding reforms.
5. RFC established by President Hoover, it lent federal funds to banks, insurance companies,
and railroads in a “trickle down” stimulus.
6. Black Tuesday panicked investors dumped their stocks at any price causing a severe crash in the stock
Market.
7. SEC Federal agency with authority to regulate trading practices in stocks and bonds.
8. TVA Federal regional planning agency established to promote conservation, produce
electric power, and encourage economic development in southern states.
9. Blue Eagle insignia on products made by companies who participated in the NRA program.
10. Dust Bowl Dust storms blew away millions of tons of topsoil, despoiling the land and darkening
the sky 1,000 miles away.
11. WPA established in 1935, it set up work relief programs to assist the unemployed and boost
the economy.
12. FDR In the first hundred days of his presidency, Congress passed the legislation creating the
New Deal program.
13. NYA a WPA agency that gave part-time jobs to high school and college students enabling
them to stay in school and do productive work.
14. Huey Long Louisiana Senator who wanted more comprehensive social welfare policies and to be
the President, but was assassinated.
15. FDIC part of the Emergency Banking Act, it guaranteed bank deposits up to $2,500.
16. FERA it established national system of relief that furnished funds to state and local agencies.
Directed by Harry Hopkins, it spent over $3 Billion before it ended in 1935.
17. AAA established to combat the depression in agriculture caused by crop surpluses and low
prices, it subsidized farmers who agreed to restrict production.
18. Hoover President who believed that voluntary, private action was preferable to federal
intervention.
19. PWA provided work relief and stimulated the economy by building schools, hospitals,
courthouses, airports, dams, and bridges.
20. packing the court President FDR’s attempt to add Judges who supported the New Deal to the Supreme
Court.
21. NRA created to halt the slide in prices, wages, and employment by suspending antitrust laws
and authorizing industrial and trade associations to draft codes to promote business.
22. Social Security Act it provided unemployment compensation, old-age pensions, and aid for dependent
mothers and children and the blind.
23. Bonus Army unemployed WWI veterans who assembled in Washington DC to demand payment of
service bonuses.
24. CWA New Deal agency that hired laborers to build roads, teachers to staff rural schools, and
singers to give public performances.
Unit 6: The Great Depression (Chapter 10 pg. 244-266) Name: ______Per. __
*Match the terms below to the correct definition by writing the term on the line:
RFC AAA PWA CCC Eleanor Roosevelt
TVA NRA CWA SEC WPA
FDIC NYA Wagner Act Hoover “packing the court”
Emergency Banking Act FERA Social Security Act FDR Blue Eagle
Huey Long Black Tuesday Dust Bowl Bonus Army
1. ______created jobs in reforestation and conservation projects, including building roads and bridges in
national parks and forests .
2. ______a conservative measure that extended government assistance to sound banks and reorganized the
weak ones.
3. ______guaranteed workers’ rights to organize unions and forbade employers to adopt unfair labor practices.
4. ______As First Lady, she pushed for women’s rights, demanding reforms.
5. ______established by President Hoover, it lent federal funds to banks, insurance companies, and railroads in a
“trickle down” stimulus.
6. ______panicked investors dumped their stocks at any price causing a severe crash in the stock market.
7. ______Federal agency with authority to regulate trading practices in stocks and bonds.
8. ______Federal regional planning agency established to promote conservation, produce electric power, and
encourage economic development in southern states.
9. ______insignia on products made by companies who participated in the NRA program.
10.______Dust storms blew away millions of tons of topsoil, despoiling the land and darkening the sky 1,000
miles away.
11.______established in 1935, it set up work relief programs to assist the unemployed and boost the economy.
12.______In the first hundred days of his presidency, Congress passed the legislation creating the New Deal
program.
13.______a WPA agency that gave part-time jobs to high school and college students enabling them to stay in
school and do productive work.
14.______Louisiana Senator who wanted more comprehensive social welfare policies and to be the President,
but was assassinated.
15.______part of the Emergency Banking Act, it guaranteed bank deposits up to $2,500.
16.______it established national system of relief that furnished funds to state and local agencies. Directed by
Harry Hopkins, it spent over $3 Billion before it ended in 1935.
17.______established to combat the depression in agriculture caused by crop surpluses and low prices, it
subsidized farmers who agreed to restrict production.
18.______President who believed that voluntary, private action was preferable to federal intervention.
19.______provided work relief and stimulated the economy by building schools, hospitals, courthouses, airports,
dams, and bridges.
20.______President FDR’s attempt to add Judges who supported the New Deal to the Supreme Court.
21.______created to halt the slide in prices, wages, and employment by suspending antitrust laws and
authorizing industrial and trade associations to draft codes to promote business.
22.______it provided unemployment compensation, old-age pensions, and aid for dependent mothers and
children and the blind.
23.______unemployed WWI veterans who assembled in Washington DC to demand payment of service bonuses.
24.______New Deal agency that hired laborers to build roads, teachers to staff rural schools, and singers to give
public performances.