Makeshift homeless shelters during the early years of the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
100
October 29, 1929, the day the Great Crash of the Sock Market began.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
Collapse of the American stock market in 1929.
What is the Great Crash?
100
Most severe economic downturn in the nation's history 1929-1941.
What is the Great Depression?
200
Periods in which a nation's economy grows, then contracts.
What is a business cycle?
200
Central & Southern Great Plains in 1930's when the region sustained a period of drought and dust storms.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
Farm auctions during the Great Depression at which neighbors saved each other's property from foreclosure by bidding low.
What is a penny auction?
200
Highest import tax in history, passed by congress in 1930.
What is the Hawley Smoot - Tariff?
200
Corporation set up by President Hoover in 1932 to give government credit to a number of institutions, such as large industries and insurance companies.
What is Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
300
Measure of the average of stock prices of major industries.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
300
Group of WWI vetrans and their families who protested in Washington D.C. in 1932, demanding immediate payment of a pension bonus promised for 1945.
What is the Bonus Army?
300
President FDR's relief, recovery, and reformprograms combatting the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
300
Government funded projects to build public facilities.
What is public works program?
300
Established in 1933 to raise farm prices through government financial assistance.
What is Agricultural Adjustment Act?
400
Labor protest in which laborers stop working but refuse to leave the workplace.
What is a sit down strike?
400
Federal project to provide inexpensive electirc power, flood control, and recreational opportunities to the Tennessee River.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
400
Established by Congress in 1933, put more than 2.5 million young men to work restoring and maintaining forests, beaches, and parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
400
Period of slow business activity.
What is recession?
400
Provides financial security, in the form of regular payments, to the people who can't support themselves.
What is Social Security Act?
500
Period of legislative activity launched by FDR in 1935.
What is the Second New Deal?
500
Law passed in 1935, that aided unions by legalizing collective bargaining and closed shops, and by establishing the National Labor Relations Board.
What is the Wagner Act?
500
Established in 1933 to raise farm prices through government financial assistance.