Causes
America's Depression
New Deal Programs I
New Deal Programs II
Misc.
100

This practice of buying and selling stocks too much in the 1920s led to the Crash in 1929

Speculation

100

This is the nickname for the day the stock market crashed in 1929

Black Tuesday

100

This program provided banking insurance. If a bank failed, you would not lose everything!

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

100

This was a program designed to provide employment and energy sources for the under-developed South

Tennessee Valley Authority

100

The nickname for people leaving the Dust Bowl for California

Okies

200

This disaster ruined American farm lands when wind storms blew away over-worked soil

The Dust Bowl

200

Hoover believed in this style of economics which meant little government action in fixing the Great Depression

Laissez-Faire Economics

200

This act gave emergency money to banks for recovery.

Emergency Banking Act

200

This act gave relief to farmers and outlined how to protect soil to prevent future "dust bowls"

Agricultural Adjustment Act

200

CCC, WPA, TVA, NRA: Unemployment Relief or Fixing The Banks?

Unemployment Relief

300

Factories did this practice, causing supplies to go up and demand/profit for products to go down, forcing closures. 

Over-production

300

This was the march of WWI veterans to Washington DC that was violently broken up by President Hoover

The Bonus Army

300

This group was created to prevent fraud, insider trading, and over-speculating on the stock market

Securities and Exchange Commission

300

This program gave jobs outdoors, food, clothes, and a place to sleep for young men

Civilian Conservation Corps

300

SEC, FDIC, EBA and Bank Holiday: Unemployment Relief or Fixing the Banks?

Fixing The Banks

400

This certain tax made world economies mad at the USA by making their imported products very expensive. 

Smoot-Hawley Tariff

400

FDR's "New Deal" had 3 goals, or 3 Rs. What were they?

Relief, Recovery, Reform

400

The most important New Deal act. It provided the "federal safety net" needed for all future Americans that would struggle with employment or tragedy

Social Security Act

400

These two groups gave job opportunities to Americans by creating construction projects that would build roads, hospitals, airports and other infrastructures.

Public Works Administration and Civil Works Administration

400

The name of the book that defined American struggle during the Great Depression

The Grapes of Wrath

500

These 3 groups of Americans struggled financially despite the riches of the 1920s...

African Americans, Coal Miners, Farmers

500

This was the name given to giant homeless camps in cities during the Great Depression

Hoovervilles

500

This was the event where FDR closed all banks until they could be inspected and approved for a re-opening

Bank Holiday

500

This program created the 40-hour work week, minimum wage, supported labor unions, and put rules on trusts/monopolies.

National Recovery Administration

500

This is an individual who has a high net worth as a result of the assets they own "on Paper."

Paper Millionaires

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