Purchasing stocks on credit
What is buying on margin?
Who was the First Lady, diplomat, and humanitarian during the Great Depression?
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
This New Deal program attempted to REBUILD the ECONOMY by helping banks, businesses and farmers by restarting the flow of consumer demand.
What is Recovery Programs?
This employed millions of Americans in public work projects
This was when the stock market crashed after stock prices collapsed.
What is Black Tuesday?
This was a place where food was provided to the needy at little or no cost
What are soup kitchens?
This New Deal program focused on changing things with the creation of programs that would PREVENT ANOTHER DEPRESSION and help protect citizens against economic distasters.
What is Reform Programs?
This put Americans back to work doing jobs that had the unique goal of PRESERVING THE COUNTRY'S NATURAL RESOURCES.
What is Civilian Conservation Corps?
This is when customers rushed to banks to withdraw their money; banks ran out of money and were forced to close
What is bank runs?
This was the period of time during which Roosevelt and Congress worked together to create new programs to aid economic recovery
What is the Hundred Days?
This New Deal program attempted to IMMEDIATELY HELP THE UNEMPLOYED by creating jobs.
What is Relief Programs?
This helped stabalize agricultural prices by paying farmers to cut production
This is a severe economic crisis that lasted for the entire decade of the 1930s
What is The Great Depression
The president blamed for not helping during The Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover
What is the National Youth Administration?
Roosevelt's program to end the Great Depression was called this.
What is the New Deal?
The term for when government takes a "hands off" policy.
What is laissez faire?
These were the groups of tin and cardboard shacks that were built by homeless families in cities and towns across the U.S.
What are Hoovervilles?
This guarantees individuals that money they deposited in a bank would be repaid to them by the federal government in the event that their bank went out of business
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Company?
Roosevelt addressed the citizens of the United States in these radio talks.
What are Fireside Chats?