Vocabulary
The decline of the U.S. economy which result in the unemployment of millions of U.S. citizens
What is the Great Depression?
This was an arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy now and pay later. This is a factor that led to the Great Depression
What is credit?
October 29, 1929
When was Black Tuesday?
This president began to formulate a set of policies for his new administration known as the New Deal.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This program provided jobs for single males on conservation projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
New Deal program that provided jobs for the unemployed to build dams, generators, to bring electricity to the community of Tennessee River Valley
What is TVA?
This was a profitable and golden age for the motion picture and radio industries. Wacky comedies, lavish musicals, love stories, and gangster films all vied for the attention of the movie-going public.
What was the culture of the 1930s?
A drought that began in the early 1930s wreaked havoc on the Great Plains. It hit parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This president tried to reassure Americans that the nation's economy was on a sound footing after the stock market crash. Soon after the stock market, he called together key business, banking, and labor leaders.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
Programs to help farmers and regulate crop production
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
Another name for "Shantytowns"
What are "Hoovervilles"?
This helped reduce the suffering of Americans. Millions of people had received some form of help that ranged from direct relief to jobs that provided a steady paycheck.
What was the impact of the New Deal?
In 1932 a group of World War I veterans and families led by Walter Waters went to the nation's capital to support a bill under debate in Congress.
Who is the Bonus Army?
This person wrote about the suffering of migrant families in the "Grapes of Wrath"
Who is John Steinback?
a law enacted in 1935 to provide aid to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and families with dependent children. a law enacted in 1935 to provide aid to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and families with dependent children.
What is the Social Security Act?
Th use of radios by President Roosevelt in order to ease the citizens of the United States during the Great Depression
What are fireside chats?
These were influential African Americans who advised the Roosevelt administration on racial issues.
What is the "Black Cabinet?"
This was the closing of all banks until inspectors could determine that the bank was financially stable
What was the Bank Holiday?
First Lady who was a humanitarian and supported her husband through his presidency
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
an agency established as part of the Second New Deal, that provided the unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, the arts, and other fields.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
President Roosevelt's goal for the New Deal
What are the 3 R's?
This is paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.
What is buying on margin?
A period of intense activity launched by the Roosevelt administration in 1933. During this period, Congress passed more than 15 major pieces of new legislation.
What are the Hundred Days?
This person took pictures of families who suffered during the Great Depression
Who is Dorothea Lange?
a law—also known as the National Labor Relations Act—enacted in 1935 to protect workers’ rights after the Supreme Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional.
What is the Wagner Act?