Causes of the Great Depression
1929
What is the year the Stock Market crashed?
This was a result of companies laying off workers because they couldn't sell off their products.
What is unemployment?
The 31st President who many people blamed for the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
American families often visited this to get free coffee, doughnuts and soup when they were hungry.
What is a soup kitchen?
Americans bought many new products using this and couldn't pay for them because they lost their jobs.
What is credit or installment buying?
The day that stocks were being sold off in mass which caused Americans to lose millions.
What is the day the Stock Market crashed or Black Thursday?
The three main purposes of the New Deal.
What is provide Relief, Reform and Recovery?
Town-like sites set up near water on public lands to house homeless families.
What are Hoovervilles?
This group of people had it especially hard because they had taken out massive loans in order to produce food for soldiers in WWI and now they can't sell their products due to the downturn in the economy.
What are farmers?
Sunday, April 14, 1935, a huge dust storm blew in over the midwest causing a lot of destruction.
What is the Black Sunday?
This man gave fireside chats and created the New Deal to help Americans get back to work.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This material was often used to build houses in Hoovervilles and cover worn out shoes.
What is cardboard or Hoover leather?
This man did not get re-elected as President because he did NOTHING to help Americans during the Great Depression era.
Who is Hoover?
Because Americans had purchased their homes on credit and couldn't pay on their loans, they became...
What is homeless?
The program set up to help the disabled and the elderly get money to live on.
What is the Social Security Act?
These items were worn by Americans in the mid-west to protect their eyes and lungs from swirling dust storms.
What are masks and goggles?
Clothes passed from one person to the other.
What are hand-me-downs?
This program helped reform the banking industry by providing insurance to customers so they would not lose the money held by the bank.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
Because banks could not be trusted with Americans' money, this happened.
What is banks closed?