The Economy
This is the term for owing money to a company or to someone else.
Debt
Herbert Hoover belonged to which political party?
Republican Party
This is the name of the intense period of economic troubles in the United States during the 1930s.
This program provided electricity to the countryside, and allowed many farm houses to install their first lightbulbs.
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
Credit
This Republican lost the election of 1932.
Herbert Hoover
The role of the federal government during the Great Depression is mostly considered to have done this.
Expanded
This program provided cash payments and pensions to the physically disabled.
Social Security Act (SSA)
This event wiped out the life savings of many everyday Americans, and had the biggest affect on the Great Depression.
Banking Crisis
This was the first sign of the Great Depression, and mostly hurt wealthy people with shares.
Stock Market Crash of 1929
This man won the presidency in 1932 as the first Democrat to win since Woodrow Wilson.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In order to get food during the Great Depression, many people did what?
Breadlines and Soup Kitchens
This program employed young men into the military to work on government property.
Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)
This project in northern Arizona and southern Nevada employed many and created the biggest water reservoir in the United States.
Hoover Dam
This was the forced closure of banks in order to prevent people from withdrawing money.
Bank Holiday
Fireside Chats
Many homeless people had to stay in these facilities that mocked the president.
Hoovervilles
This program provided farmers with money that they could use to pay for tractors, land, and seed.
Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
This was a series of dirt storms that made the Great Plains unlivable, and resulted in many people moving further West.
This law made tariff rates extremely high, and led to a trade war with other countries.
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Republican Presidential candidate that lost to FDR in 1936.
The poor economic time period after the New Deal was mocked by Republicans as what?
Roosevelt's Recession
This program employed 8.5 million people to build airports, bridges, roads, and other infrastructure in the 2nd New Deal.
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
List 3 states that were directly affected by the dust storms.
Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri.