Causes
What are the three causes of the Great Depression?
Overproduction, stock market crash, and bank failures
What kinds of homes did people have to move into during the Great Depression?
Hoovervilles
Why did the Americans name Hoovervilles after Herbert Hoover?
They blamed him for their unfortunate circumstances
What were two causes of the Dust Bowl?
Drought and over plowing top soil
What was the New Deal?
FDR's plan to put the country back on track, during the Great Depression, that included many new programs
How did the stock market crash?
Prices of stocks fell and everyone began to sell their immediately
What did children have to do during the Great Depression
Quit school and work
Who was the next presiden after Hoover?
FDR
What did many farmers have to do during the Dust Bowl?
Move to California
What were the three R's that the New Deal targeted?
Relief, recovery, reform
What did people do once the stock market crashed?
Ran to the banks to pull out all their money and then some people lost their money
What did the Bonus Army want?
Their money promised from WWI
What did FDR create to help during the Great Depression?
The New Deal
How did people treat dust bowl farmers?
Made fun of them, called them Okies
What did the Social Security Administration do?
What kinds of good were businesses overproducing at this time?
Luxury goods
What did the government do to the Bonus Army protestors?
Burned their camps and threw tear gas at them
What did FDR do to help reach the American people and lift their spirits?
Fireside chats
What sickness could many people get from the Dust Bowl?
Dust pnemonia
What did the Civilian Conservation Corps do?
Gave jobs to people to work on the environment
What president contributed to the cause or advancement of the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
Why did the federal government not help at first during the Great Depression?
Hoover said it was the states and the people's jobs to pull themselves out of the depression
What pulled the US out of the Great Depression?
WWII
What animal did Dust Bowl survivors kill a lot of?
Rabbits
What did the Agricultural Adjustment Act do?
Adjusted crop prices so that farmers could make a stable living