Causes
October 29th, 1929 "Black Tuesday"
What is the Stock Market crash?
Photographer and photo journalist who took pictures of people during the Great Depression and "Humanized" them
Who was Dorothea Lange?
The new Deal Organization that employed young men and had them build public works projects all over the nation
What was the Civilian Conservation Corp?
President Roosevelt's plan to solve the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
Grass and trees were planted in the Dust Bowl to try to stop this
What is erosion?
Producing more goods than needed and creating a surplus
What is overproduction?
President of the U.S. from 1928-1932 who is usually blamed for making the Great Depression worse
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This New Deal Act was passed to give an income to people who were retired
What was the Social Security Act (SSA)?
The 3 "R"s that FDR focused on to help solve the Freat Depression
What is Relief, Recovery, Reform?
This is where pieces of companies are bought and sold
What is the stock market?
The area of the Midwest where farmers overworked the land by growing too many crops and droughts that made the situation worse
What is the Dust Bowl
The President of the U.S. from 1932-1945. He brought the U.S. a "New Deal"
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This Act gave restored peoples faith in banks
What wasEmergency Banking Relief Act?
The attempt by FDR to add 6 new Supreme Court justices, this plan did not work
What was the "court packing Scheme"?
A famous African-American educator, this woman became an advisor to the President
Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
This is when a person onl;y pays a little toward the purchase of stock and borrows the rest.
What is buying on margin?
WWI veterans who marched on Washington, D.C. demanding to be paid the pensions that they were promised after the War
What was the Bonus Army?
The New Deal Act brought electricity to thousands of people in rural areas like North Carolina
What was the Rural Electrification Act (REA)?
Roosevelts group of experts who helped come up with the ideas for many of the New Deal agencies
What was the "Brain Trust"?
This is money paid to people who are out of work
What is unemployment insurance?
Businesses failed when the banks failed because of this.
What is loss of savings?
Governor of Louisiana who spoke out against FDR. He did not think the president had done enough to divide the wealth in the U.S. among everybody
Who was Huey Long?
The New Deal agency that was created to bring flood control, conservation and electricity along the Tennessee River, It still exists today
What is Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA?
The two military men sent into the Bonus Army camps with orders to get the veterans to leave
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur?
The New Deal Agency that still exixts today. It makes sure that is a bank fails, the depositors will get their money back (Up to $200,000)
What is the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?