Vocabulary
Hard Times
New Deal
Beginning and End
Bonus Info
100
place where stocks are traded
What is stock market?
100
The day the stock market crashed
What is Black Tuesday?
100
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
What are the three main goals of Roosevelt's plan to end the Depression?
100
factories produced more than people could buy
What is overproduction?
100
people blamed this President for the Great Depression
Who is President Hoover?
200
area of a city where poor, homeless people built shacks to live in during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
200
seven year drought during the 1930's
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
Roosevelt's plan for ending the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
200
WWII began
What is the day the Depression ended?
200
name of the novel by John Steinbeck
What is "Grapes of Wrath"?
300
Person who goes from farm to farm looking for work
What is a migrant farm worker?
300
the decade of the Great Depression
What are the 1930's?
300
agency that built dams and power plants during the Depression
What is TVA?
300
was not shared by everyone during the 1920's and was a reason for the Great Depression
What is wealth?
300
veterans that demanded their bonus money early
What is the Bonus Army?
400
A return to normal conditions
What is recovery?
400
wrote "Grapes of Wrath", a novel about migrant farm workers
Who is John Steinbeck?
400
insures money in savings accounts if banks were to fail again
What is FDIC?
400
did not believe in interfering with business problems
What is the government?
400
talks on the radio where Roosevelt told the American people he would end the Depression
What are fireside chats?
500
Protection against property loss or damage
What is insurance?
500
lost money during the Great Depression because they made more food than people could buy
Who are farmers?
500
provided money, jobs, insurance, and pensions
What is the New Deal?
500
placed high tariffs on European goods
What is Congress?
500
disease that took away Roosevelt's ability to walk
What is Polio?
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