Vocabulary
An era of severe poverty and economic collapse in the US from 1929-1941.
What is the Great Depression?
The name of the day the stock market crashed.
What is BLACK TUESDAY?
The programs that helped combat unemployment and help the country during the Great Depression.
What is the "New Deal" programs?
A place to get free food during the Great Depression.
What is a breadline?
Shantytowns created by the homeless were called this.
What are "Hoovervilles"?
To not pay back your loan.
What is to default?
Investors did THIS when stock prices started to drop.
What is panic and sell their stocks?
This group of people were hired to protect national parks and nature reserves.
Who were the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC?
People weren't working and less income meant less income TAX for the government which caused this...
What are schools to close and teachers' pay cut?
The President DURING the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
To not have a job
What is unemployment?
These collapsed when people defaulted on their loans or couldn't pay them back.
What are banks?
This program prevented workers from being treated unfairly.
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
This many companies went out of business during The Great Depression.
What is hundreds of thousands?
A long period of dry weather.
What is a drought?
Help for someone in need
What is relief?
Many people had bought stocks using THIS and owed more money than their stocks were worth.
What is credit?
This program guaranteed pensions to Americans, set up unemployment insurance, and helped those who were disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
People lost this when the banks closed.
What are their savings?
The name given to the drought stricken plains during the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
What is the stock market?
This dropped by 66% from 1929 to 1934 due to Congress placing a tax on imported goods and then other countries responding by placing tariffs on American goods.
What is world trade?
This program provided jobs for unemployed Americans by building post offices, bridges, schools, highways, and parks.
What is the Works Progress Administration or WPA?
This was the unemployment rate during the Great Depression.
What is 25%? (1 in 4 people)
This president was elected after Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt or FDR?