The Federal Government
This individual served a single term as President from 1928-1932.
Who was President Hoover?
This term describes individuals who were known as poor drifters.
What is a Hobo?
This was the event that many consider to have started the Great Depression.
What was the Stock Market crash of 1929?
This was the shortened name of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
What was the AAA?
This major public work project was named after the President that enacted it.
What was the Hoover Dam?
This places were found largely in urban areas to help feed the needy.
What were Soup Kitchens/Bread Lines?
This is a share of a public company in the economy.
What is a stock?
This agency helped to fix the environmental disaster facing the Mid West by planting trees.
What was the CCC/Civilian Conservation Corps?
This economic philosophy was practiced by the Presidents of the Roaring 20's and the first President of the Great Depression.
What is Laissez Faire Capitalism?
This was the name of both an area in the Mid West and the environmental disaster that impacted it during the Great Depression.
What was the Dust Bowl?
A period of growth in the economy is known as a _____ market.
What is a Bull Market?
The TVA built a series of Dams along what river?
What was the Tennessee River?
This was the last President during the Great Depression.
Who was President Franklin Roosevelt/FDR?
This was the ironic name given to shantytowns where the homeless lived during the Great Depression.
What were Hoovervilles?
This was a name given to the event where people rushed to the banks to withdraw their money before they shut down.
What is a bank run?
Buildings like the Jeannette Post Office were constructed by this alphabet agency.
What was the WPA/Works Progress Administration?
This was the name that FDR used for his promise to American citizens during his campaign for President.
What is a New Deal?
This group of people saw the largest jump in the suicide rate during the Great Depression.
Who were men?
This was the act of buying stocks on credit.
What was buying on margin?
The acronym FDIC stood for this agency.
What was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.