Vocabulary
The buying and selling of goods
consumerism
President that implemented New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt
A board game based on Atlantic City where you buy and sell properties, invented in 1935 and still played today?
Monopoly
this group was created to limit the production of farm goods so the prices wouldn't get to high
foreclose
this was a program started to help those over 65 once they retire
Social Security Act
allowed items to be made faster by one worker repeating a process
assembly line
The 3 R's of the New Deal
relief, recovery, reform
Increased employment by creating new public works projects, such as building schools, roads and bridges
Works Progress Administration
this where people would have to go if they wanted food and they could not afford to buy it themselves
breadlines
Continues to reassure millions of people that their money is safe in American banks.
FDIC- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
the day the stock market crashed
Black Tuesday
this group was formed to hire workers to help protect various nature reserves and national parks
Civilian Conservation Corps
FDR's wife
Eleanor
The nickname for shantytowns, newspaper blankets, and empty pockets.
Hoovervilles, Hoover-blankets, Hoover-flags
Renovated five existing dams and constructed 20 new ones, created thousands of jobs, and provided flood control and waterpower
TVA
the term for the Midwest during dust storms of the 1920's
Dust Bowl
this group was created to limit the production of farm goods so the prices wouldn't get to high
Agriculture Adjustment Act
What Woody Guthrie folk song is written about the Great Depression
This Land is Your Land
An idea proposed by Hoover in which people should "fend for themselves" and work to improve their own lives
Rugged Individualism
Two reasons for the passage of the 21st Amendment
What is Prohibition was ineffective, high crime rate, government wanted tax revenue
outlawed drinking, buying/selling/distribution of alcohol
Prohibition
FDR would speak about New Deal programs to the American people through these
Fireside Chats
Hoover's one positive contribution to the Great Depression- creation of the
Boulder (Hoover) Dam
Name given to people who left home and rode the rails looking for work?
Hobos
Government uses more money than it receives in revenue
Deficit Spending