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100

October 29, 1929 - The biggest one-day loss in the stock market.

Black Tuesday

100

Long period of time with little or no rain

drought
100

When you owe someone money.

debt
100

Business and things all people use to live and travel.

Public Works

100

Hooverville

Shantytown built by homeless people during the Great Depression

200

Place where people an invest money by buying and selling parts of a company.

Stock Market

200

Became president after Hoover and signed a New Deal that helped end the Great Depression.

Franklin Roosevelt

200

Someone who uses his/her own money to help build a business.

investor

200

Group of people meant to protect the right of workers to make sure they are treated and paid fairly.

union

200

Public Works

Businesses and things all people use to live and travel

300

1929-1939 - Time in the US when people could not find work and banks and businesses failed.

The Great Depression

300

Shantytown built by homeless people during the Great Depression.

Hooverville

300
Things made by businesses (like tires) and things businesses can do (like fix a car).

goods and services

300
When a company makes more money than it owes or spends.

Economic recovery

300

Civic Uplift

Making a large group of people (like a country) feel happy and positive about the future.

400

Not able to find a job

unemployed

400

President when the Great Depression started.  Did not believe the government should step in and help.

Herbert Hoover

400

Plan made by Roosevelt to help the country recover from the Great Depression.  Focuses on making more jobs and building roads and bridges.

New Deal

400

1929-1939- Time in the US when people could not find work and banks and businesses failed.

The Great Depression

400

New Deal

Plan made by Roosevelt to help the country recover from the Great Depression.  Focused on making more jobs and building roads and bridges

500

Making a large group of people (like a country) feel happy and postive about the future.

Civic Uplift

500

War between major countries that the US entered into in 1941

World War II (2)

500

Treat someone unfairly because they are different than you are.  Based on the color of their skin, where they were born, or gender.

discrimination

500

Place where people can invest money by buying and selling parts of a company

Stock Market

500

debt

when you owe someone money