Vocab 1
October 29, 1929 - The biggest one-day loss in the stock market.
Black Tuesday
Long period of time with little or no rain
When you owe someone money.
Business and things all people use to live and travel.
Public Works
Hooverville
Shantytown built by homeless people during the Great Depression
Place where people an invest money by buying and selling parts of a company.
Stock Market
Became president after Hoover and signed a New Deal that helped end the Great Depression.
Franklin Roosevelt
Someone who uses his/her own money to help build a business.
investor
Group of people meant to protect the right of workers to make sure they are treated and paid fairly.
union
Public Works
Businesses and things all people use to live and travel
1929-1939 - Time in the US when people could not find work and banks and businesses failed.
The Great Depression
Shantytown built by homeless people during the Great Depression.
Hooverville
goods and services
Economic recovery
Civic Uplift
Making a large group of people (like a country) feel happy and positive about the future.
Not able to find a job
unemployed
President when the Great Depression started. Did not believe the government should step in and help.
Herbert Hoover
Plan made by Roosevelt to help the country recover from the Great Depression. Focuses on making more jobs and building roads and bridges.
New Deal
1929-1939- Time in the US when people could not find work and banks and businesses failed.
The Great Depression
New Deal
Plan made by Roosevelt to help the country recover from the Great Depression. Focused on making more jobs and building roads and bridges
Making a large group of people (like a country) feel happy and postive about the future.
Civic Uplift
War between major countries that the US entered into in 1941
World War II (2)
Treat someone unfairly because they are different than you are. Based on the color of their skin, where they were born, or gender.
discrimination
Place where people can invest money by buying and selling parts of a company
Stock Market
debt
when you owe someone money