Vocabulary
Causes
Impacts
The New Deal
Miscellaneous
100
This word means to deal with many different countries.
What is international?
100
This system failed.
What is the banking system?
100
Approximately this amount of people were unemployed (without jobs) during the Great Depression.
What is 25% or 1/4?
100
This New Deal program provides assistance to disabled people and the elderly (people over 65).
What is the Social Security Act?
100
The D. in Franklin D. Roosevelt stands for this. It is also the name of town in Pennsylvania.
What is Delano?
200
This is the central or national government.
What is federal?
200
People could not repay the banks when the stock market crashed because they "over-___________"
What is speculated?
200
During the Great Depression, incomes of these people in particular fell to very low levels.
What are farmers?
200
Because of the New Deal the ________________ was more involved in the economy than ever before.
What is the government?
200
He was president when the stock market crashed.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
This is an extra tax on goods/products coming into the U.S. from other countries.
What are tariffs?
300
High ____________ caused international trade to decrease to all-time lows.
What are tariffs?
300
During the Great Depression, many people were h_________ and h_____________.
What are hungry and homeless?
300
As part of the New Deal, the government hired workers through _______________ work programs.
What are Federal work programs?
300
This is the central bank of the U.S..
What is the Federal Reserve?
400
This is a part or a piece of a compnay or business that can be purchased.
What is a stock?
400
People bought stocks they could not afford using this.
What is borrowed money?
400
As a result of the Great Depression, many b_________ and b________________ failed.
What are banks and businesses?
400
This New Deal program was aimed at improving the environment through maintaining forests and parks.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
400
FDR aimed to convince Americans that the country could survive the Great Depression by stating that....the only thing we have to fear is this.
What is "fear itself"?
500
This means to guess or predict something. People did this incorrectly in the 1920s.
What is speculate?
500
In the 1920s, banks lent more money than they were legally allowed and loans were not paid back. As a result, this banking system collapsed.
What is the Federal Reserve?
500
Many people lost these during the Great Depression.
What are jobs?
500
This agency provided work for 8 million Americans and constructed/repaired schools, hospitals, and airfields.
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)?
500
The "I" in the acronym FIRES (Features of the New Deal) stands for this.
What is "increased rights for labor"?
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