Causes
New Deal Relief/Recovery
New Deal
Reform
Primary Sources
Life in the Depression
100
This event marks the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929
100
This was an agency made to employ single young men in conservation projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
100
This insured savings accounts in banks approved by the government.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
100
A series of radio broadcasts explaining what plans Roosevelt had for the government.
What are Fireside Chats?
100
This was an area from Texas to North Dakota that caused the westward migration of almost 2.5 million people.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
This happened when banks ran out of money or lost it in the stock market.
What is the banking crisis?
200
This create jobs for government projects such as schools, libraries, and hospitals.
What is Works Progress Administration (WPA)
200
This ended risky buying and selling of stocks to make a quick profit
What is the Truth in Securities Act?
200
This was the theme of a series of correspondence about the treatment of African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Core.
What are blacks in the CCC?
200
The term referring to migrant workers who left the Dust Bowl area, mostly from Oklahoma.
What are Okies?
300
This was a risky method of buying stock with a little of your own money and borrowing the rest.
What is buying on the margin?
300
This was created to give farm subsidies (money) to farmers to not plant certain crops to prevent overproduction and increase prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
300
This established a minimum wage and maximum number of work hours per week for the entire nation.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
300
First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, was asked to help her husband in getting old age pensions for the poor by this method
What is a letter.
300
The group hit the hardest by unemployment which was 50% compared with the national average of 25%.
Who are African Americans.
400
This happens when too many goods are produced and no one wants to buy them.
What is overproduction?
400
This was created to bring electricity to the farmers increasing from 10% to 35%.
What is the Rural Electrification Program?
400
This agency was set up to supervise the stock market and prevent dishonest practices.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
400
The author, Langston Hughes, wrote about the feelings of African Americans during the Great Depression with this method.
What are poems.
400
She published a series of photographs that showed the devastation of the GD on women and children.
Who is Dorthea Lange.
500
Large scale _________________ happened all across the country affecting nearly 13 million people.
What is unemployment?
500
This agency built 39 dams in 7 states to produce cheap electric power.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
500
This important law set up pensions for older people, unemployment for the jobless, and help for those with disabilities.
What is the Social Security Act?
500
The Carter Family and Woody Guthrie wrote these as statements about the Great Depression.
What are folksongs?
500
This Pulitzer Prize winning book by John Steinbeck portrayed the hardships of the migrant Joad family in California.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
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