Causes/Effects
October 29, 1929
What is "Black Tuesday" or the Stock Market Crash?
President responsible for the New Deal, who reassured the nation that "the only thing we have to fear is, fear itself".
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
In order to increase crop prices and stabilize farm incomes, this New Deal law paid farmers NOT to grow crops.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
This region of the country was hardest hit by the Dust Bowl.
What is the Great Plains (Midwest)?
Epic romance novel of the 1930s, which despite its historical inaccuracies, was made into the highest grossing film (inflation-adjusted) ever.
What is Gone With the Wind?
25% national average
What was the unemplyment rate during the Great Depression?
President blamed for the Great Depression and his poor handling of the Bonus Army of WWI veterans.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
New Deal program that hired nearly 3 million men (total) to do environmental jobs, such as planting 3 billion trees.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
Two major causes of the Dust Bowl...
What were drought; overfarming, leading to a loss of topsoil and massive erosion; unusually high winds
World famous singer NOT allowed to perform at Constitution Hall in 1939 due to her race, instead performed at the Lincoln Memorial.
Who is Marian Anderson?
Besides the Stock Market crash, name 3 causes of the Great Depression.
What are: Overproduction, underconsumption, unequal distribution of wealth, over-extension of credit, rampant speculation by banks and subsequent bank failures, problems in the farming industry, lack of international trade, WWI debt issues?
Humanitarian first lady who was a fierce advocate for women, children and Blacks during the Great Depression.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
This agency helped restore the public's confidence in the nation's banks by having the government insure people's deposits up to $5000.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
This photographer documented the effects of the Great Depression on rural Americans...most famously in Migrant Mother.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
The "Brown Bomber" was boxing's heavyweight champion from 1937-1949, and also one of America's first nation-wide Black celebrities.
Who is Joe Louis?
Name 2 SOCIAL impacts of the Great Depression that affected FAMILIES.
What are: increased levels of family separations, increased homelessness, decreased marriages and birth rates, kids leaving families early, increased health/dental problems...then increased crime, increased suicides, etc.?
An international effect of the GD is that it helped give rise to and solidify the power of these TWO Fascist leaders in Germany and Italy, respectively.
Who are Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini?
New Deal program that helped establish America's social safety net by providing retirement income for senior citizens, the disabled, the poor, etc.
What is Social Security (or SSA)?
This 1939 novel AND author told the plight of an "Okie" family who had lost their farm and were traveling to the promised land of California.
What is John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath?
African American track and field star who won 4 gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936--thus putting the lie to Hitler's myth of the superior Aryan race.
Who is Jesse Owens?
Name a long-term POLITICAL impact of the Great Depression/New Deal.
What are: The size and role of the federal government expanded greatly, and Americans came to EXPECT that government would play a bigger part in their lives; Blacks began voting for the Democratic Party by 1936; etc.?
She served as director of the National Youth Administration's Negro Division and was a member of FDR's "Black Cabinet".
Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
New Deal jobs program that hired women and minorities, as well as artists, writers and musicians.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Massive dust storms that rolled across the plains all the way to the East Coast, often blotting out the sun.
What are Black Blizzards?
This “King of Swing” was one of the best musicians of the Big Band era and the first to play with a racially integrated orchestra
Who is Benny Goodman?