Causes & Effects of the Great Depression
What was "Black Tuesday"?
The day that the stock market crashed.
What would you call a group of cardboard houses set up in a public park or street alley?
Hooverville
When was FDR inaugurated? (Only need the year)
March 4, 1933
The rise in this among American workers was a major result of the Great Depression.
unemployment
Who were "poor" people that would hitchhike on trains and sleep under bridges?
Hobos
What were FDR's three R's
Relief
Recovery
Reform
This President thought that by doing nothing the economy would get better because the economy goes up then down then back up
Herbert Hoover
____ ____ offered free or low-priced food for the people during the depression
Soup kitchens
What were some of the first steps of FDR's New Deal?
Close the banks
Reopen the healthy ones
Communicate directly to the Americans through fireside chats
What is a stock? Why did the stock prices fall leading up to the Great Depression?
A stock is a share of a company. Stock prices fell because companies were not making as much money.
What was the name of the drought that caused many farmers in the great plains to have terrible harvests in the 1930's?
dust bowl
Fill in the blank
"We have nothing to ____ but ____ itself"
Fear
High protective tariffs that produced retaliatory tariffs in other countries, strangling world trade were a cause of The Great Depression. (protected U.S. industry yet had the opposite effect) Name one such tariff?
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Suicide rate grew __% between 1928-1932
30%
How did FDR die?
Cerebral Hemorrhage (internal bleeding in the brain)