People
Who was president when the Great Depression started?
Herbert Hoover
Which event is usually considered to be the start of the Great Depression?
Stock Market crash
A person who risks money in hopes of financial profit
Speculators
a dam that is curved upstream in order to transmit the major part of the water load to the abutments
Arch Dam
Which president helped restore the economy?
Franklin D Roosevelt
What was the period of time in the stock market before the crash called?
bull market
A system for buying and selling stocks in corporation
Stock Market
Which decade did most of the Great Depression occur in?
1930s
Who created the New Deal?
Franklin D Roosevelt
persistent and heavy demands by a bank's depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money
bank run
Negotiations between employers and unions of workers over wages and other matters
Collective bargaining
A decline in spending resulted in a decline
production of goods
Who did the Dust Bowl affect the most?
Farmers
monthly plan made to pay off the cost of an item when buying it on credit
installment plans
Government practice of spending borrowed money rather than raising taxes to boost the economy
deficit spending
How much money did the “Emergency Relief and Construction Act”
$1.5 billion