Hoovervilles 1
A poor area in a city where houses are made from cheap or recycled materials and are often not very safe or clean
What is a shantytown?
In New York City, camps sprang up along the ___ and ___ rivers.
What are Hudson and East rivers?
It was estimated that this many people were jobless during the Great Depression in March 1933
What is 13-15 million?
Roosevelt's presidency was __ years old before he launched his primary attack on unemployment...
What is two?
In 'Graph: Unemployment rate in the United States from 1910 to 1960', this is what the green line represents
What is unemployment (estimated?)
The person who was blamed for the horrible conditions of the Great Depression after the government failed to provide relief
Who is President Hoover?
Some Hoovervilles were dotted with ___
What are vegetable gardens?
What type of workers were affected
What are all?
What Roosevelt's primary attack on unemployment was called
What is the WPA?
In 'Graph: Unemployment rate in the United States from 1910 to 1960', this is what the purple line represents
What is unemployment?
What people named the shantytowns after Hoover was blamed for unbearable economic and social conditions
What are hoovervilles?
Hoovervilles posed these to their inhabitants as well as to those living nearby.
What are health risks?
After the stock market collapsed in ___ and people lost their investments, the U.S. began a period of time called the __________
What is 1929?
What is the Great Depression?
What the WPA stands for
What is Works Pogress Administration?
The green line in 'Graphs: Unemployment rate in the United States from 1910 to 1960' goes over...
What is 20%?
Hoovervilles were crafted out of...
A. Tin B. Tar paper
C. Glass D. Lumber
E. All of the above
E. All of the above
Their name was used derisively in multiple ways during the Great Depression because people plamed them for the conditions
Who is President Hoover?
What was the president's greatest primary task in this time?
To put people to work
The WPA put over ______ Americans to work in its first year of operation.
What is 3 million?
The purple line in 'Graphs: Unemployment rate in the United States from 1910 to 1960' goes over...
What is 15%?
Some of the places where Hoovervilles were built
What are Washington D.C. and New York City?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The Civil Works Administration put ____ of the unemployed to work during the winter of ___-___...
What is 4.3 million?
What is 1933-1934?
What the WPA was made for
What is maximizing employment among the people hit hardest by the Great Depression?
The other graph in the Newsela
What is 'Graph: Bank loans from 1920 to 1938'?