New Deal
The three R's of the New Deal
Relief, Recovery, Reform
The President at the start of the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
Grants or stimulus checks
Relief
Rundown villages full of shacks and tents
Hoovervilles
Severe mid-west dust storms that led to crippled agriculture
The Dust Bowl
First part of the New Deal
Established reform laws and emergency relief programs
Because the stock market crashed
Laws for prevention
Reform
The Great Depression led to the election of which US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
They were replaced by FDR
Short term impact of the New Deal
Improved the lives of people during the Great Depression
Why did banks not have money for withdrawls
Banks had lent all their money out
Soup Kitchens
Relief
Farmers who moved to California in search of work
Okies
The day the stock market crashed
Black Tuesday
Long term impact of the New Deal
Set a precedent for the Government to get involved in the US economy
Accomplishments of Herbert Hoover
Nothing
Opening of new government agencies
Recovery
25%
Farming that people resorted to during the Great Depression
Tenant Farming
Second part of the New Deal
Provided union protection and Social Security
Cause of the stock market crash
High speculations
Banks being forced to keep extra money
Reform
Group of veterans who marched on Washington DC demanding compensation for WWI
The Bonus Army
Group of people who were "last hired, first fired"
African Americans