The Great Depression
This event signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
This was how New Deal programs were paid for.
What are taxes on incomes and businesses?
This "alphabet agency" provided direct aid to the people hurt worst by the Great Depression, paying for rent, groceries, clothing, and coal to heat their homes.
What is FERA?
This is a sharp increase in ALL prices that makes money less valuable.
What is inflation?
On October 29th of this year, the stock market crashed, starting the Great Depression.
What is 1929?
A severe drought and dust storms led to large portions of the great plains earning this nickname during the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This harmful labor practice was outlawed by the New Deal in all 50 states.
What is child labor?
This "alphabet agency" employed ONLY unemployed, unmarried men ages 18-25 in manual, outdoor labor.
What is the CCC?
This is a fraction of ownership in a company.
What is a stock?
This percentage of Americans were unemployed in 1933.
What is 25%?
This president had shantytowns, newspaper "blankets," and cardboard "shoe leather" named after him because people blamed him for the Depression.
Who is President Herbert Hoover?
One of the 3 "R's" of FDR's approach to the New Deal, this "R" was focused on preventing future depressions and economic problems.
What is Reform?
This "alphabet agency" taxes workers each month until they reach retirement age, then every American receives a monthly check from them.
What is the Social Security Administration?
This is a long period of little rain, leading to water shortages and failed crops.
What is a drought?
The Works Progress Administration employed _______________ writers, artists, musicians, and actors during the Depression.
What is 40,000?
This was what ended the Great Depression.
What is the US entry into World War II?
One of the 3 "R's" of FDR's approach to the New Deal, this "R" was focused on helping improve Americans' lives by providing them with money and jobs.
What is Relief?
This "alphabet agency" built 30 hydro-electric dams to provide electricity to a huge portion of the US South.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
This is a long period of very slow business activity that leads to few jobs and little money for common people.
What is an economic depression?
At the height of the Great Depression 1 in 4 Americans was unemployed. When FDR died it was about 1 in __________.
What is 50?
This was a quality President Hoover believed in that caused him to believe the government should not get involved in helping people recover from disasters.
What is "rugged individualism?"
This was the reason that FDR was able to win reelection easily when he ran in 1935 and 1936.
What is "people gave him credit for improving the economy with the New Deal?"
This "alphabet agency" interviewed thousands of formerly enslaved Americans to preserve first hand accounts of what US slavery was like.
What is the WPA?
This was a period of serious dust storms in the 1930s caused by a big drought that lasted years.
What is the Dust Bowl?
By 1933, 1 out of _________ US banks had gone bankrupt.
What is 5?