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Causes of the Great Depression
THe Great Depression and the Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl and The 1930's
The New Deal
The New Deal
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The rich got richer, the poor got poorer...
What is uneven distribution of wealth?
100
Black Tuesday
What is October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed in the United States, called?
100
Many grew up malnourished and most also faced a lack of education.
Who are the children of the Depression?
100
FDR's programs to get the nation out to the Great Depression.
What is The New Deal?
100
A controversial program that paid the farmers NOT to grow as many crops, or raise as much livestock in order o raise food prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
200
Guessing on risky tips (speculation), and margin buying:
What is stock market recklessness?
200
Rugged Individualism, the concept that the nation's economy would right itself without government intervention.
What is President Hoover's plan to fix the nation?
200
Shantytowns made of shacks, built by displaced people, using scraps of anything they could find.
What are Hoovervilles?
200
1) give aid to the needy, 2) programs for economic recovery, and 3) plan for financial reforms
What are 3 goals of the New Deal?
200
Created jobs, helped control flooding, and created electricity.
What is the TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority?
300
Citizens bought less due to rising prices, many bought on installment plans, and banks were giving easy loans...
What are consumer spending and credit practices leading to the Great Depression?
300
1930's weather related natural disaster in the states of the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
Mostly Black and Mexican people who suffered due to the great Depression, as well as race and job discrimination.
Who are minority farmers?
300
This program gave money directly to states for food, clothing, etc. for the needy.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Act?
300
A program that oversaw the companies and investors in the stock market, checking for illegal and deceiving practices.
What is SEC, Securities and Exchange Commision?
400
Struggling industries and Farm decline were two causes of this:
What is the Great Depression?
400
The combination of drought and bad farming practices which lead to topsoil being blown everywhere, burying crops, homes, and killing livestock.
What are the primary causes for the Dust Bowl?
400
In 1932 he won the Presidential election representing the Democratic Party.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
This program that hired single males ages 18-25 to work on projects such as planting trees, and state parks work.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corp?
400
Program that insured a person's bank deposits...
What is the Glass-Steagall Act (or FDIC)?
500
It caused a decline in trade as nations of the world could not sell their goods in America.
What is a high tariff?
500
Okies
What are people from the Great Plains who move to California due to the Dust Bowl called?
500
FDR's first action towards the nation's recovery.
What is a Bank Holiday?
500
NRA
What is the National Recovery Administration?
500
These gave the nation reassurance and good news during the Depression.
What are the Fireside Chats?