Causes & Clauses
A cause of the Great Depression where people lost their investments.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
The main character in "Cinderella Man."
Who was James "Jimmy" Braddock?
The collection of government programs designed to aid Americans during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
The president who was ineffective at reacting to the Great Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
A cause of the Great Depression which caused banks to fail around the nation.
What was the bank run?
Young men who traveled the country on freight trains during the Great Depression looking for work.
Who are hobos?
Aside from boxing, Jim Braddock worked here to make money during "Cinderella Man."
Where are the docks?
The nickname for shanty towns in major cities during the Great Depression.
What is a Hooverville?
The American government didn't do this which led to the Depression.
What is regulate the economy?
The major dust storms that occurred during the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Permanent economic programs that are designed to prevent future economic crisis.
What is reform?
President Franklin Roosevelt's radio addresses to the nation.
What are Fireside Chats?
The boxer that was defeated in the final fight of "Cinderella Man."
Who was Max Baer?
The Dust Bowl affected this group of Americans the most during the Great Depression.
Who were farmers?
Immediate action to halt the economies deterioration.
What is a relief?
Critics of FDR and the New Deal claimed that the programs turned America into this state.
What is a welfare state?
The law passed by President Hoover that made the Great Depression worse.
What is the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act?
Many Americans found themselves with this unfortunate status during the Great Depression.
Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer goods.
What is a recovery?
Jim Braddock's trainer and manager.
Who was Joe Gould?