Stock Market Crash
1929
When did the Stock Market crash?
A successful businessman before becoming president.
Ran for president against Herbert Hoover in 1932.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Drought in the Great Plains caused severe soil erosion, the soil blew away and formed clouds of dust. The clouds covered houses, barns, fences, and roads.
Dust Bowl
A national plan to help struggling Americans and spur the U.S. economy.
New Deal
Money raised by a business through the issue of shares.
Stocks
Herbert Hoover believed in this idea and thought people would be better off if they did not have to rely on the government for help.
Rugged Individualism
Created a national plan called
The New Deal
Where did the farmers move to?
California
The New Deal established agencies to help create jobs.
CCC, WPA, TVA
The longest period of unemployment and low economic activity in modern times.
Great Depression
Homeless people built temporary shelters on public land.
Hoovervilles
Refers to the many programs and agencies that Franklin D. Roosevelt put in place to help out during the Great Depression.
Alphabet Soup
A drought in the Great Plains caused severe erosion.
What caused the Dust Bowl?
CCC
Something that is owed, typically money.
Debt
Thousands of teenagers left home to ride across the country, in hopes of finding jobs or seeking new adventures.
Riding the Rails
Created jobs to build parks, schools, courthouses, bridges, dams, and other useful public works projects.
Federal work programs
The worst of the devastation occurred between 1932 and 1939.
When did the Dust Bowl happen?
Built dams in a seven-state region to control floods and generate electricity for homes and farms.
TVA
Borrowed money that a person can use but must repay in the future.
Credit
Churches and other groups opened up these to help people who were desperate for food.
Soup Kitchens
Created jobs to complete conservation projects, such as planting trees.
Environmental improvement programs
Many farmers gave up and moved farther west for work in the farmlands.
Migration
Put unemployed people to work building highways, bridges, public buildings, parks, and airports.
WPA