Causes of the Great Depression
What major event in October of 1929 signaled the start of the Great Depression?
What is the stock market crash
Who was the President when the Great Depression began?
Who is Herbert Hoover
What program gave people jobs building roads, parks, and public buildings?
What is:
The Civilian Conservation Corps or "CCC"
These were shantytowns built by homeless people
What were Hoovervilles?
What is a severe economic downturn, lasting 3 consecutive fiscal quarters is called a:
What is
Depression
This woman's photographs serve as a stark reminder of the effect of the Great Depression on poor Americans
Who was
Dorithea Lange.
What practice allowed people to buy stocks with borrowed money?
What is buying stocks on margin
Which President Created the "New Deal"
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt
What New Deal Program created jobs for artists, writers, and actors?
What was:
The Works Progress Administration (WPA)
What group of WW I Veterans marched on Washington for early bonus payments?
What was the Bonus Army?
Where are stocks purchased?
What is
The Stock Market
This man was hired by the San Francisco Chronicle to document the stories of the Dust Bowl Migration, later turning his articles into a classic American novel, which chronicled the effects of the Great Depression on poor Americans
Who was John Steinbeck and "The Grapes of Wrath"
What agricultural crisis worsened the Depression in the Great Plains?
What is the Dust Bowl
FDR's wife, who championed human rights and was often seen as the public face of his administration
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt
A program that provided jobs through Public Works projects like Dams?
What was the Public Works Administration (PWA)
What migration brought farmers west to California?
What was
The Dust Bowl Migration.
This term means: Government spending to stimulate the economy
What is "deficit spending"
How did the New Deal change the role of Government?
It increased the government's size and involvement in people's lives
What economic issue caused factories to produce more goods than people could buy?
What is overproduction
An African American educator who advised Roosevelt and was a part of the "Black" cabinet.
Who was Mary McLeod Bethune
A program that offered a retirement pension for older Americans
What is the Social Security Administration?
This group was often "last hired, first fired."
Who were African Americans
The policy that describes government involvement in the economy?
What is "Intervention"
What event and what date technically ended the Great Depression?
What is
World War II, December 7th, 1941
What banking failure caused many Americans to lose their savings?
What is "runs" on banks, bank failures.
Southern Politician and critic of FDR's New Deal, who proposed his own program called "Share our Wealth."
Who was Huey Long
What Act regulated the Stock Market after the Crash of 1929?
What was the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934?
What happened to unemployment during the Great Depression?
What is
It rose dramatically to 25%
Economist and the idea that the government should spend to boost the economy
Who was
John Maynard Keynes (Keynesian economics)
Critics argued that this 1937 proposal by Franklin D. Roosevelt threatened the system of checks and balances by expanding the Supreme Court of the United States.
What is
The Court Packing plan