Causes & the Crash
October 29, 1929, when the stock market experienced a major crash.
What is Black Tuesday?
What is the name of the main character who is a boxer in the movie?
Who is James J. Braddock?
A person without a job is described by this word.
What is unemployed?
This president was in office when the stock market crashed in 1929.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This country experienced the Great Depression after the 1929 stock market crash and became the center of the economic crisis.
What is the United States?
This economic problem occurred when businesses produced more goods than people could afford to buy.
What is overproduction?
How many children does James Braddock have in the movie?
What is three children?
These temporary communities of makeshift homes were named after President Hoover.
What are Hoovervilles?
This name describes FDR's collection of programs intended to provide relief, recovery, and reform.
What is the New Deal?
This environmental disaster caused severe dust storms and forced many farmers to leave their homes.
What is the Dust Bowl?
When people rushed to withdraw their money and banks could not repay everyone, these institutions often failed.
What are banks?
What does Braddock's family struggle to afford during the Depression?
What are basic necessities such as food, rent, and heat?
A settlement of improvised buildings typically made of materials such as mud and wood, or from cheap building materials.
What is a Shantytown?
This president took office in March 1933 and promised a New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This decade is known for the Great Depression.
What are the 1930s?
A place/system where people buy and sell shares of companies.
What is the stock market?
What government assistance does Braddock receive when his family is struggling financially?
He receives relief assistance from the government.
The movement of people from one place to another, often to find work or a better life.
What is migration?
This New Deal agency hired young men to work on conservation projects such as planting trees and improving parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
During the Great Depression, millions of Americans experienced this when businesses closed and jobs disappeared.
What is unemployment?
Money that a person or organization owes to someone else.
What is debt?
What job does Braddock have besides boxing to try to earn money?
What is dockworker (working on the docks)?
The condition of being very poor and not having enough money for basic needs.
What is poverty?
Name the three main goals of the New Deal.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
What was the decade before the Great Depression called, when the economy grew, businesses prospered, and many Americans enjoyed a period of wealth and cultural change?
What are the Roaring Twenties?