Vocabulary
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The Great Depression
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Define Pension

a sum paid regularly to a person, usually after retirement

100

President from 1929-1933. Belived the goverment wasn't going to help. 

Herbert Hoover

100

government-funded projects to build public resources such as roads and dams. These projects would create jobs

public works projects

100

Shantytowns housing people during the depression are called

Hoovervilles

100

This allowed the treasury to close down banks and inspect that they were sound

Emergency Banking Relief Act

200

Government practice of spending more than it takes in from taxes

Deficit Spending

200

Who was the first Female cabinet member

Francis Perkins

200

Relief program that gave jobs to unemployed single men (ages 18-25). They planted trees, built bridges and developed new parks.




Civilian Conservation Corps

200

considered the worst economic event in world history with skittish investors trading a record 12.9 million shares. Oct. 29, 1929, Also known as Black Tuesday

The Stock Market Crash

200

This helped to establish fair prices on many products

National Industrial Recovery Act

300

Define Bank Holiday

closed all banks until gov. examiners could investigate their financial condition

300

she was an important advisor on foreign policy because her husband had polio 

Eleanor Roosevelt

300

Recovery program that set out to remake the Tennessee River Valley. They built dams, deepened river channels, planted forests, and even set up schools and health centers.

Tennessee Valley Authority

300

WWI army veterans that went to Washington to get a promised bonus but were kick out with force

The Bonus Army

300

The Dust Bowl affected this group of people the most.

farmers

400

Informal talks given by FDR over the radio; sat by White House fireplace; gained the confidence of the people

Fireside Chat


400

The democratic president of 1933. He created a number of programs to help the economy and people like Dynamite Garland.




Franklin Delano Roosevelt

400

Reform program that insured bank accounts in banks approved by the government. If an insured bank failed, the government would make sure depositors received their money.




Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

400

Was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s

The Dust Bowl

400

this person documented the Great Depression through photography. (hint: Migrant Mother)

Dorothea Lange

500

Define Black Tuesday

October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression.

500

A career politician who had served four terms as governor of New York. He relished the limelight, was witty and outgoing, and came from a poor family. He was the Democratic nomination for President in the election of 1928.

Alfred E. Smith

500

attempted to regulate agricultural production through farm subsidies; ruled unconstitutional in 1936; disbanded after World War II.

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

500

Americans did not earn enough money to buy goods and services.

poor purchasing power

500

This was FDR's campaign song.

"Happy Days Are Here Again."

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