Great Depression

Causes and Effects

100

True or False: Banks were providing loans that consumers were unable to repay. 

True

200

Americans were buying stocks and other goods using this, causing them to purchase things that they could not afford. 

Credit and/or Loans

300

This was the nickname for the day when the stock market crashed. 

Black Tuesday

400

This was Americans were unemployed at the height of the Great Depression in 1933

1/4 or 25%

500

In an effort to balance the budget and combat the effects of the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover used this method to raise funds

Taxes

New Deal Programs

100

This president helped create the New Deal programs. 

Franklin Roosevelt

200

This program gave senior citizens financial assistance and is still used today

Social Security

300

This program helped get Americans back to work by building roads, buildings, and other projects. 

Work Progress Administration

400

This program put younger Americans back to work building local parks and other environmental improvements.

Civilian Conservation Corps

500

This program helped bring electricity to rural areas of the South by building hydroelectric dams.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Dust Bowl

100

Dust storms in the midwest were called this nickname

Black Blizzards

200

One cause of the Dust Bowl was this kind of natural disaster caused by lack of water

Drought

300

This region of the United States was affected the most by the Dust Bowl

Midwest or Great Plains

400

People who lived in the areas of the Dust Bowl moved to this part of the United States

The West

500

This piece of equipment allowed farmers to expand their farms by allowing them to farm more land in less time contributing to the severity of the Dust Bowl

Tractors or gasoline-powered equipment

General Facts

100

October 29, 1929 is known by this name

Black Tuesday

200

This event is considered to have help the United States end the Great Depression

World War 2

300

This act is when a bank is forced to take someone's home or property because they failed to pay back a loan

Foreclosure

400

True or False: American's growing personal debt in the 1920s help set the stage for the Great Depression

True

500

This is type of spending is like a loan but is used in daily life and allows you to purchase things that you may not be able to afford outright

credit