Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Hoover and the Crash
Roosevelt & the N.D.
Life in the Depression
100
This is the financial failure caused by an inability to pay one's debts
What is bankruptcy?
100
These are radio talks.
What are fireside chats?
100
These were signs that the economy was weakening.
What is coal mining, railroads, and clothing manufacturing, were all in decline?
100
He won the election of 1932.
Who is FDR?
100
Women were most likely to get jobs as
What are salesclerks and secretaries?
200
These are rights guaranteed in the Constitution, especially voting and equal treatment under the law.
What are civil rights?
200
These are people who traveled from farm to farm picking crops.
What are migrant workers?
200
The stock market crashed on this day.
What is October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed?
200
This program granted funds to states.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?
200
Women saved money by
What is sewing clothes, canning fruit, and baking bread?
300
This the right of a union to negotiate wages and benefits for all of its members.
What is collective bargaining?
300
This a tax that removes money directly from workers' paychecks.
What is payroll tax?
300
This is an affect of overproduction
What is producing more than people can afford to buy and prices were going up and salaries were decreasing?
300
This gave jobs to conserve national parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
300
This the percentage of Blacks unemployed in the U.S.
What is 50%?
400
This means to fail to repay one's loan.
What is default?
400
These are retirement payments.
What are pensions?
400
This is how the stock market affected families.
What is unemployment, hours and wages were cut, men left their families?
400
This program kept prices stable while boosting employment power
What is the National Recovery Administration?
400
The poorest people in the U.S. were
Who are native Americans?
500
This is a situation in which the government spends more money than it receives in taxes.
What is deficit spending?
500
This is a situation in which the supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demand.
What is overproduction?
500
Hoovervilles are
What are makeshift slums outside big cities?
500
These were the 3 goals of the New Deal.
What are 1.) relief for the jobless; 2.) economic recovery; 3.) reforms to prevent future depressions
500
The Dust Bowl was
What is A.) A severe drought B.) A widespread of crop failure C.) A wave of dust storms
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