Causes of Great Depression
October 29, 1929
What is the Stock Market Crash or Black Tuesday?
FDR's plan help improve the economy.
What is the New Deal?
Unable to pay off debt.
What is bankrupt?
The agency that helped stop flooding and arranged for cheap electricity in the area in and around Tennessee?
What is the TVA?
The three Rs of the New Deal.
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform
The President who believed in limited government involvement in the economy during the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
FDR's African American advisors?
Who is the Black Cabinet?
Money given after retirement.
What is a pension?
This ensures bank deposits.
What is FDIC
A group of temporary houses set up in a public park or street alley during the Depression?
What is a Hooverville?
This happened to many of the United States banks after the stock market crashed.
What is ran out of money?
The disease that FDR contracted.
What is polio?
Extra money added to income.
What is a bonus?
This Act in 1935 provided (and still provides today) money for people after they have retired.
What is Social Security
French term for Herbert Hoover's economic philosophy.
What is Laissez Faire?
When a company makes more products (TVs, Cars, Radios, etc) than people are willing to buy.
What is overproduction?
The name of his radio broadcasts were he spoke to all America like they were simply his friends.
What are Fireside Chats
The sum of money a nation owes.
What is national debt?
This agency built public airports, sewers, roads, schools, and other buildings. It also employed writers, artists, photographers and actors.
What is the WPA
The name given to the area affected by the drought that caused many farmers in the Great Plains to have terrible harvests in the 1930's?
What is the Dust Bowl?
When people put down a small percentage of the cost of a stock and borrowed the rest of the money to buy more stock?
What is buying on margin?
Complete this famous quote from FDR's first inauguration. "The only thing we have to ...
fear is fear itself?"
An economic slump that is milder than a depression
What is a recession?
This group of men ages 18 - 26 learned forestry skills t help improve our national forest and national parks and were paid $1 per day.
What is the CCC
The man chosen by Hoover to remove the Bonus Army.
Who is Douglas McArthur?