Vocabulary term meaning "A time when industries do not grow and many people are out of work".
What is a depression?
100
Who became President in 1933?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
Vocabulary term meaning "The number of workers without jobs".
What is unemployment?
100
All over the country, hungry people lined up for __ given by religious groups or local welfare groups.
What is food?
200
The day the stock market crashed was called...
What is Black Tuesday?
200
Vocabulary term meaning "The lowest amount of money by law that a person can be paid per hour".
What is minimum wage?
200
Roosevelt spoke to Americans about his plans to make things better through the radio in speeches that were called ___.
What is Fireside Chats?
200
Vocabulary term meaning "A person who studies the economy".
What is an economist?
200
A long drought and soil erosion during the 1930's brought dust storms to the Great Plains region in the United States which became known as...
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
_____ was blamed for the Depression.
Who is President Herbert Hoover?
300
Vocabulary term meaning "Someone who uses money to buy or make something that will yield a profit".
What is an investor?
300
One of the largest programs of the New Deal was the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It employed 8.5 million people. The WPA programs included the creation of ...
What is buildings, roads, parks, and bridges?
300
Vocabulary term meaning "Retirement income paid to people who stop working at a certain age".
What is a pension?
300
The Dust Bowl caused many people to leave their homes and head to __ looking for new jobs and opportunities.
What is California?
400
Why did banks begin to close in 1929?
Because they did not have any money when people came to empty their bank accounts.
400
Vocabulary term meaning "The many workers and groups that are needed to run government programs".
What is a bureaucracy?
400
After Roosevelt took office, Congress passed laws to deal with the Depression that were called the...
What is New Deal?
400
Vocabulary term meaning "A government plan for spending in which it does not spend more money than it makes".
What is a balanced budget?
400
The devastating drought and strong winds prevented farmers from being able to...
What is grow crops or farm the land?
500
Many people went ___ because they could not pay their bills when they lost their jobs.
What is bankrupt?
500
Vocabulary term meaning "Dam that uses the water it stores to produce electricity".
What is a hydroelectric dam?
500
Roosevelt was the only President to be in office for __ years.
What is 12?
500
Term for the cardboard box homes in shantytowns that people lived in who became homeless.
What are hoovervilles?
500
Why was the depression that started in 1929 known as the Great Depression?
Because it affected more people than any depression had before and because it lasted longer than any depression had before.