Markets
Markets Ctd.
Hoover
Roosevelt
Other
100
Continuing rise in stock prices.
What is a bull market?
100
October 29, 1929 where the economy dropped.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
President during the Great Depression. He wanted people to find work on their own, no government support.
Who is President Hoover? How did he run the economy?
100
Served as assistant secretary of the Navy and later became President (1932).
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
Relief, Recovery and Reform
What are the 3 R's (New Deal Programs)
200
Continuing drop in stock prices.
What is a bear market?
200
The panic that people had after the stock market crashed.
What is the Panic of 1929?
200
Camps full of shacks built from cardboard boxes that were on the outskirts of the city.
What is a Hooverville?
200
First lady who played an important role in the administration.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
200
Program where workers built dams to control flooding and generate cheap electricity.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
300
Economic pattern between periods of growth and decline.
What is the business cycle?
300
Projects such as building hospitals, roads, and schools. Benefits the public and create jobs.
What is Public Works?
300
Lasted from March 9 until mid-June where they created the New Deal.
What is the Hundred Days?
300
Period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the US agriculture in the 1930's.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
Putting money in a HIGH-RISK investment, hoping to make a profit.
What is speculation?
400
The nation became locked in a downward spiral.
What is the Great Depression?
400
Private organizations provided food, shelter, clothing, and money to the needy.
What is relief?
400
Informal radio broadcasts from President Roosevelt.
What are fireside chats?
400
Act that suspended anti-trust laws, eliminate unfair competition and prevent business failures.
What is that National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)?
500
Buying stocks on credit with a loan.
What is buying on margin?
500
Tariff that raised taxes on imports to an all-time high.
What is the Smooth-Hawley Tariff?
500
Veterans who created a bonus expeditionary force (bonus army).
What is the bonus army?
500
Series of government programs intended to lift the country out of the depression.
What is the New Deal?
500
A pension plan for retired workers over the age 65.
What is the Social Security Act?
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