Great Depression 1
This is the spark of the Great Depression
What is the the stock market crash?
What area of the country did the Dust Bowl affect?
The Great Plains
What ended the Great Depression?
World War II
Term when ALL banks were forced to close for FOUR days.
What was the “Bank Holiday?”
Emergency Banking Relief Act- Passed by Congress, allowed only sound banks to reopen, the rest remained closed
This action in Flint, Michigan by the UAW-CIO ended with GM giving in after 6 weeks.
What is the Sit-Down Strike?
Famous photographer who captured the image called Migrant Mother.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
The term where scared bank depositors tried to withdraw their savings.
What is a bank run or bank panic?
What 2 underlying issues led to the Great Depression?
1. Overproduction 2. Bank Closures 3. Overuse of Credit 3. Lack of oversight by the Fed 4. Income Inequality 5. Stock Market Crash 6. Tariff Policy 7. Gold Standard 8. Bank Panics
Result of Black Tuesday
businesses went bankrupt, people lost life savings
Construction program that brought electricity, navigable waterways, controlled flooding, created jobs in the South
What is the TVA?
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established this.
What is a minimum wage?
She became the first Black woman to lead an agency in the U.S. government.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
President during the beginning of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This was an effect of the Dust Bowl on farmers and tenant farmers.
What is falling crop prices, or kicked off their land, or their topsoil was blown away, or they were forced to move?
Name two New Deal's actions.
1. reopened healthy banks 2. protected savings 3. regulate stock market 4. gave people public work jobs,
This person became the "eyes, ears, and legs" of FDR.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
This occurred when spending by the U.S. govt went down between 1937-1938.
What is unemployment went up?
California writer John Steinbeck wrote this 1939 famous novel about Dust Bowl refugees?
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
This is the process of paying a small percentage of a stock as a down payment and borrowing the rest."
What is "buying on margin?
This is the name of the slums or shanty towns during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
Name one project created by New Deal programs in Sacramento?
1. Tower Bridge 2. Theodore Judah Elementary 3. McClatchy High School 4. Land Park 5. Sac Executive Airport 6. Fountain at Caesar Chavez Park 7. Sac City College
This program protected consumer's bank deposits.
What is the FDIC?
Famous speeches FDR gave over the radio to Americans
What are Fireside Chats?
FDR shifted his worries to this person near the end of the Great Depression.
Who is Hitler?
What is the date of Black Tuesday ?
October 29, 1929
How long did Great Depression last ? Through what years ?
11 years and 1929-1940
This act provided monthly income to the elderly and retired persons.
What is Social Security Act?
This program was set up to regulate the stock market.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
What is the Wagner Act, or NLRA?
Famous folk singer who wrote "This Land is Your Land."
Who is Woody Gutherie?