Vocabulary
A severe economic crash in the 1930s, causing in poverty and homelessness
What is the Great Depression?
The person who implemented the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
He helped the United States out of the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
When veterans who couldn't get money asked to get money from President Hoover.
What was the Bonus Army?
The place where you buy and sell stocks.
What is a stock market?
Three important charities during the Great Depression.
What are YMCA, Red Cross, V.O.A, Community Chest, Boy Scouts of America.
Homeless people lived in towns named after him, people claim he is responsible for the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
A big bunch of dust storms that devastated crops in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
A share of a company that consumers buy or sell.
What is a stock?
Many charities were part of this, named after a food.
What is the alphabet soup?
The president's wife who was the spokesman of the White House
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The first crashes of the stock market, contributing to the Great Depression.
What is Black Thursday and Black Tuesday?
If the product is in high demand and low supply, prices go up and vice versa.
What is the law of supply and demand?
Soup kitchens and food stamps are an example of this.
What are socialist ideas.
He held influential radio broadcasts where he criticized the New Deal.
Who is Father Charles Coughlin?
This act implemented tariffs that froze international trade.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
A term when stocks have gone up 20% or more.
What is a bull market?
The difference between reform, relief, and recovery.
Relief refers to immediate assistance for those in need, recovery involves measures to stimulate the economy after a downturn, and reform aims to implement long-term changes to prevent future crises.
He critiqued social and political climate using his writing.
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
The name of large amounts of people going to the bank to withdraw money.
What is a bank run?