Important People
Father Charles Coughlin
Published a newspaper that made anti-semitic worse. He was also viewed as bad.
Works Progress Administration
Program to help the homeless, and assign different types of jobs to help the unemployed.
Stock
A share in a company
Hoovervilles
Homeless people built unauthorized housing because of the economic struggles.
In document four, what do the Veterans want?
The Veterans want to be paid, even if the economy if financially unstable.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He made a deal called the New Deal that included union programs, the Social Security Act, and to help farmers.
Civilian Conservation Corps
Provided temporary relief to the unemployed by offering jobs.
Dust bowl
A giant dust cloud came which resulted in crop failures due to severe drought
Smoot-Hawley Act
Rose and put tariffs on foods, and goods.
In document three, what does the author want?
The author wants the homeless, and Veterans to be paid.
Huey Long
Promoted many reforms that complimented him to the rural poor, and the unemployed, and others speaking for better education.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Helped farmers with crops
Black Thursday, and Black Tuesday
Black Thursday is when the stock market declined leading to the Great Depression. Black Tuesday is when the stock market failed.
What did the Smoot-Hawley Act do to the world?
It froze international trade
In document five, what does the author want the government to do?
Te author wants the government to pay what they owe them.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Supported government funds, and created the Human Rights Commission where she played important roles to help the Great Depression.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Helped with maintaining stability in finance.
Bank runs
If you invested your money in a bank, you maybe wouldn't get you money back.
Herbert Hoover
Caused people to go homeless because of the stock market failures. He also tried to make a congress to help out, even if it didn't work.
In document five, what does the author want for the Veterans?
The author wants the Veterans to easily get a job.
Sinclair Lewis
He wrote many novels, and won Nobel prizes
Tennessee Valley Authority
Helped the environment, and provided electricity.
Socialism
A system where everything is shared equally by the citizens given by the government.
What were Hoovervilles named after
Herbert Hoover
What does the author want in document two?
The author wants the Veterans to be payed, and the economic crisis to be fixed.