People and Places
This president was in office when the Stock Market Crash of 1929 happened and was criticized for not doing enough to help people during the early years of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The sudden drop in stock prices in 1929 that helped start the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
The New Deal program that planted trees, built parks, and helped the environment while giving jobs to young men.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
A famous jazz bandleader and composer from the era whose music was widely popular.
Who is Duke Ellington?
The decade when the Great Depression took place (give the name of the decade).
What are the 1930s?
The president elected in 1932 who created many New Deal programs to help Americans recover from the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
One main effect of the Great Depression on families.
What is severe economic instability (no jobs, no money)?
This program built roads, schools, and other public buildings and hired many artists, writers, and construction workers.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
The author of the novel Gone with the Wind, published in 1936.
Who is Margaret Mitchell?
The name for programs and policies started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to fight the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
The region of the central United States that suffered severe dust storms and farm losses during the 1930s.
Where is the Great Plains?
Explain in one sentence why banks closing made the Depression worse for regular people.
What is when people withdrew all their savings, the banks ran out of money and closed, causing people to lose the money they had saved?
A program that built dams and brought electricity and jobs to the Tennessee Valley region.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
The African American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics and became a national hero.
Who is Jesse Owens?
Name one job a CCC member might do.
What is planting trees?
(Other correct answers could be: building dams or fighting forest fires.)
These places served free or low-cost meals to people who had little or no money during the Depression.
What are Soup Kitchens?
Describe how the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression together affected farmers and their families.
What is the Dust Bowl destroyed their crops while the Great Depression took away their money, forcing many farm families to lose their homes and move to find work?
Both of these New Deal programs created jobs for unemployed Americans, but this one focused on hiring young men for environmental projects, while the other was the largest agency and hired construction workers, artists, and writers.
What are the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
It provided Americans an escape from the harsh realities of the 1930s.
What is music (upbeat Jazz) or movies (Gone With the Wind)?
These were places run by charities and churches where the unemployed could stand in line to get a free meal.
What are soup kitchens?
The city in Georgia where Margaret Mitchell lived and set her famous novel; also an important southern cultural center in the 1930s.
What is Atlanta?
Give two reasons why unemployment was so high during the early 1930s.
What is businesses Closed: Because people had no money to buy things, factories and stores stopped making money and had to shut down, and the Stock Market Crash: When the stock market crashed, companies lost their savings and could no longer afford to pay their workers?
By building dams, this program brought electricity to rural farms and controlled flooding in urban areas.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
They were important because they provided Americans an escape from the harsh realities of the Great Depression.
What are stories, books, and radio shows?
This set of programs helped the country by creating jobs for the unemployed, reforming banks to protect savings, and providing relief to the poor.
What is the New Deal?