Events
This happened on October 29, 1929.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
Pianist, composer, and bandleader in the 1930s "swing era".
Who is Duke Ellington?
This was one of the main causes of The Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Projects for this agency involved soil conservation and tree planting.
What is the CCC?
This happened to 1 in 4 Americans during The Great Depression.
What is unemployment?
Long periods of this in the Great Plains caused severe soil erosion.
What is drought?
African American track star that won the Olympics in Germany in 1936.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This happened to farmers as an immediate result of the dust bowl.
What is farmers lost farms and had to move west.
This agency built public highways and buildings.
What is the WPA?
The New Deal did this for people.
What is provided job opportunities?
The farming area in the Midwestern U.S. that suffered serve drought and farming conditions.
What is the Dust Bowl?
President that promised "a New Deal for the American people."
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This happened as a result of The Stock Market Crash.
What is people became unemployed and homeless?
This agency built dams and generated electricity to a seven state region.
What is the TVA?
This happens when people spend money.
What is the economy becomes stable?
This President was elected in 1932, he served 4 Presidential terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Americans blamed this President for causing The Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
People lined up here for a cup of soup and a piece of bread.
What is a soup kitchen or bread line?
The CCC, WPA, and TVA were part of this program.
What is The New Deal?
These towns sprang up all over The Great Depression.
What is a shantytown?
This led America out of The Great Depression.
What is preparing for WWII?
His sporting prowess and cheerful character gave hope to millions of fans during the Great Depression.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This program was put into place to help give Americans jobs and keep the economy going.
What is The New Deal?
What does the acronym WPA stand for?
Works Progress Administration
This is the estimated percentage of value that The Stock Market lost.
What is 90%?