Causes of the Depression
Americans Suffer
Two Presidents Respond
Early FDR Depression Programs
Miscellaneous
100

The collapse of the stock market on October 29, 1929

Black Tuesday

100

Makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people

Hoovervilles

100

Programs and laws pushed during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery and social reform

The New Deal

100

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Insured bank deposits up to $5,000 (now $250,000)

100

Period lasting from 1929-1941 when the economy faltered and unemployment soared

The Great Depression

200

What percentage of the American population was unemployed by 1933?

25%

200

Historic drought and dust storms in the Great Plains that destroyed farmlands

The Dust Bowl

200

Republican president who resisted using federal resources to provide direct relief to individuals

Herbert Hoover

200

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Regulated stock market and made it safer for investments

200

Dam on the Colorado River built during Great Depression

Hoover Dam

300

What were the high stock prices of the 1920s based on?

Confidence

300

Long lines to get food handouts

Bread lines

300

Democratic president who believed that the federal government needed to play an active role in promoting recovery and providing relief to Americans

Franklin D. Roosevelt

300

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Environmental conservation projects that provided jobs for 2 million+ young men

300

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Built or improved highways, dredged rivers and harbors, and promoted soil and water conservation

400

High-risk investments in hopes of making a huge profit

Speculation

400

Working for bigger landowners rather for themselves

Tenant farmers

400

Theory that money poured into the top of economic pyramid will trickle down to the base

Trickle-down economics

400

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Increased wages and price of goods so companies could make a profit

400

This law established a pension system for retirees

Social Security Act

500

This raised taxes on foreign imports and was supposed to help American businesses; instead, it harmed businesses, damaged international trade and spread depression to other countries

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

500

Efforts by officials to encourage or coerce immigrants to return to their country of origin

Repatriation

500

Policy where problems could best be solved at local/state levels

Localism

500

Public Works Administration (PWA)

Improved nation’s infrastructure and created millions of jobs

500

Recognized the right of employees to join labor unions and gave workers the right to collective bargaining

Wagner Act

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