Causes of the Great Depression
This stock market event on October 29, 1929, marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
These makeshift shantytowns were named after the president many blamed for the Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
He was elected president in 1932, promising a "New Deal" for the American people.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This political party and many business leaders criticized the New Deal as too expensive.
What is the Republican Party?
The Great Depression ended largely because of this global event in the 1940s.
What is World War II?
This risky method of buying stocks with borrowed money helped cause the crash.
What is buying on margin?
Many farmers lost their land during this natural disaster in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
FDR’s regular radio broadcasts to reassure Americans were called this.
What are fireside chats?
This Catholic priest had a large radio following and criticized FDR from the left.
Who is Father Charles Coughlin?
FDR served this many terms as president, more than any other U.S. leader.
What is four terms?
Too much production and not enough demand for goods is called this economic problem.
What is overproduction?
Families often listened to news and entertainment on this household device.
What is the radio?
This New Deal program built dams and provided electricity to rural areas in the Southeast.
What is the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?
This Louisiana senator proposed a “Share Our Wealth” plan before being assassinated.
Who is Huey Long?
This agency still insures bank deposits today to protect consumers.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
High tariffs like this one in 1930 worsened the global economic crisis by reducing international trade.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
These were common during the Depression, where people stood in line to receive free food.
What are breadlines?
This New Deal agency provided jobs for young men in conservation and public works.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
The Supreme Court ruled some New Deal programs unconstitutional, prompting FDR to try this controversial plan.
What is court-packing (or the court-packing plan)?
The New Deal led many African Americans to begin supporting this political party.
What is the Democratic Party?
Many banks failed during the early 1930s due to customers doing this in a panic.
What is a bank run?
This type of school enrollment increased as young people had fewer job opportunities.
What is high school?
This law created a system of pensions for the elderly, still in use today.
What is the Social Security Act?
Some critics said the New Deal threatened this economic system by giving too much power to the government.
What is capitalism?
FDR’s leadership during the Depression changed this role of the federal government.
What is expanding its role in the economy (or becoming more involved)?