Causes Of
Stocks plummeted and people lost billions
What is the Stock Market Crash?
Aid for the needy
What is relief?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Who is FDR's wife?
To fail to pay back your loan
What is default?
CCC
Provided jobs for young men to plant trees and build bridbes
Farm income shrank, industry declined and employers had to cut wages
What was an unbalanced economy?
Homes forming neighborhoods that were made out of cardboard boxes.
What were shanty towns or Hoovervilles?
A group of lawyers, economists, and social workers who aided the president
What was the Brain Trust?
The Grapes of Wrath, Gone With The Wind
What are movies in The Great Depression?
PWA
Built ports, schools, and aircraft carriers
Farmers and consumers could not pay back loan payments
What is the credit crisis?
An organized system for buying and selling shares
What is the stock exchange?
Disease that paralyzed FDR
What was polio?
Banks closed for 4 days and Congress agreed to pass this
What is The Emergency Banking Relief Act?
SSA
Set up a system of pensions for the elderly
A severe economic crisis
What is a depression?
Someone who buys and sells a stock for you.
What is a stock broker?
Laws Congress and the president passed during The Hundred Days
What is The New Deal?
black blizzard, and drought that happened in the Great Plains
What was the Dust bowl?
FERA
Gave relief to the unemployed and needy
Millions of people were out of work and the government asked these groups to help feed them
What are Catholic or religious charities?
Radio talks
What were fireside chats?
Special session of Congress that Roosevelt called to launch his programs
What is the Hundred Days?
Light, romantic entertainment that helped people forget their problems
What is escapism?
FDIC
Insurance on money deposited in a bank