Where Did The Good Times Go?
This risky practice of buying stocks expecting prices to keep rising contributed to the market’s instability before 1929.
What is speculation?
The unemployed and poor often lived in "shanty towns." They were often referred to as.
What are Hoovervilles?
Which term was used for the region of the American mid-west that suffered a devastating drought full of huge dirt storms during the 1930's.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This federal agency oversees the Stock Exchange.
What is the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)?
These people opposed the New Deal because they thought it was doing to much and wasting government money.
Who are conservatives?
This event is often considered to be the starting point of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
True or False...Hoover didn't set up government programs to help the homeless because he felt people would become dependent on the government.
True
This is the name given to the the people who migrated becasue of the Dust Bowl.
Who were okies?
This administration formed under FDR that gives payment to the elderly and disabled.
What is the Social Security Administration (SSA)?
To try to add justices to pull the court's decisions to your side or point of view
What is the Court Packing Plan of 1937?
After the stock market crash, people rushed to their banks causing this.
What is Bank Failures or Bank Runs?
During the Great Depression, people would line up at these to get food. These were normally run by charities.
What are soup kitchens/breadlines?
During the Great Depression, this 1929 law deported hundreds of thousands of people of Mexican heritage, many of them U.S. citizens.
What is the Mexican Repatriation Act of 1929?
The protection of money in banks is one of the lasting effects of the Great Depression provided by this organization.
What is the the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
The Supreme Court struck down the National Recovery Administration (NRA) for this reason.
What is it violated the principles of free market competition ?
This action taken in 1930 raised taxes on imported goods and triggered a collapse in world trade.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
What were Reconstruction Finance Plans?
These were the TWO main causes of the Dust Bowl.
What is a drought?
What is over farming?
This state run organization provides energy to rural areas of the state.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This man proposed monthly payments for the elderly.
Who is Dr. Francis Townsend?
This institution made the Depression worse by tightening the money supply instead of increasing it.
What is the Federal Reserve?
This Amendment was passed to repeal Prohibition and provide new jobs and tax dollars.
What is the 21st amendment?
As a result of the failure of their farms due to the Dust Bowl, many people moved here to find farming work.
What is the West or California?
This "Administration" created many new jobs and put as many people to work as possible.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This Act was created to raise prices of farm products but was struck down as unconstitutional.
What is The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
October 29, 1929 is also known by this name.
What is Black Tuesday?
Hoover lost re-election to FDR because of this plan to get out of the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
What famous novel was written about the lives of Oklahomans fleeing the Dust Bowl during the Depression
What is "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck?
This agency sent the boys to the forests to provide them jobs outside the city.
What is the Civilian Conservation Core (CCC)?
This senator gave the Share our Wealth speech and gained popularity.
Who is Huey Long?