Economic Collapse
What happened in October 1929 also known as Black Tuesday?
The stock market crash
Democratic president who created the New Deal to fight the Great Depression.
Using borrowed money to fund government programs.
Deficit Spending
The 150,000 square mile region of farmland struck by drought.
The Dust Bowl
The time period when the Congressional session in which many laws designed to fight the depression were passed.
The Hundred Days
President most Americans blamed for the economic hard times.
Herbert Hoover
The series of radio talks in which Roosevelt explained his policies to the people.
Fireside Chats
1933-1935 program created by President Roosevelt to fight the Great Depression.
The New Deal
Union workers refusing to work inside factories instead of walking out in protest.
Sit-down strikes
The beginning of this war created the necessary jobs that eventually ended the Great Depression.
World War II
Buying and selling risky stocks in hopes of a quick profit.
Speculation
The wife of FDR who helped monitor the New Deal programs and became a strong voice for women and minorities.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Labor organization that included both skilled and unskilled workers, women, and minorities.
The Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)
Someone who favors restrictive policies in social and economic reform.
Conservative
1929 Novel written by Joh Steinbeck about the Okies evicted from their farms.
The Grapes of Wrath
A hard economic slump.
Economic Depression
20th Amendment
Economic System in which members of society own businesses equally.
Socialism
Someone who favors federal government action to bring about social and economic change.
Liberals
Gone with the Wind and the Wizard of Oz were examples of what new form of entertainment?
Motion Pictures
Government- funded projects to help people in need.
Public Works
Law creating funds to assist retired workers and the unemployed.
The Social Security Act
WWI veterans who came to Washington DC looking for early payment of bonuses for wartime services.
The Bonus Army
The serious worldwide economic decline of the 1930's.
The Great Depression
The name President Roosevelt gave his African American advisors.
The Black Cabinet