Causes of the Great Depression
A long term cause of the Great Depression was banks giving out too many of these to too many people and businesses without checking if they could pay it back
Loans
The term for people running to try to get their money out before a bank closes
Bank Run
What act provided aid to unemployed and retired people ?
Social Security Act
The name of the storms that raged across middle America affecting farms
Dust Bowl
The name of the President during the beginning of the Great Depression that did nothing to help Americans
Herbert Hoover
One long term cause of the Great Depression was many Americans buying things on ____, which led to them having large amounts of _____
credit, debt
People did not have enough money to keep buying things during the Great Depression, which is known as
Under consumption
This program provided jobs for young men in planting trees and working in national parks
Civilian Conservation Corps
The name of the program that helped raise the price of crops to help farmers
Agricultural Adjustment Association (AAA)
FDR passed the Emergency Bank Act which helped prevent banks from shutting down by creating a 4 day ___ ____
Bank Holiday
What was the spark of the Great Depression?
The stock market crash
American businesses continued to make more goods than people were buying during the Great Depression, which was known as
Overproduction
What program provided electricity and jobs to rural areas in the South?
Tennessee Valley Authority?
The state that many farmers chose to move to after their farms failed
California
The role of the federal government ____ into the daily lives of Americans after the New Deal
expanded
Banks engaged in these risky types of loans to get money
Speculative
After many people lost their money and homes, some began living in shantytowns called these
Hoovervilles
This government program protected Americans deposits in banks
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The term for farmers not giving soil a chance to rest and regain its nutrients
Overuse
These talks that FDR made to Americans over the radio convinced people that banks were safe to use and that the government was going to help the country recover
Fireside Chats
What is the date of Black Tuesday?
October 29, 1929
The name of the Act that raised taxes on goods coming in from other countries
Smoot Hawley Tariff Act
This government program provided jobs for men in building roads, bridges, buildings, and other infrastructure projects
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
The soil on many farms began to lose nutrients and began to run into sand, a process known as
Desertification
The collective name for programs that had the government give out money and help to Americans
Entitlement Programs