Dirty 30's
The long period without rain that helped cause the Dust Bowl
What is Drought?
Hoover gave government loans to banks- so that banks could lend business money to prevent them from closing and to help the economy.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
FDR used the radio to calm and assure Americans about what the government was doing during the Depression.
What are the "fireside chats"?
Places where people went to get something to eat for free?
What is "soup kitchens"?
President of the U.S. after Hoover.
Who is FDR?
Farmers destroyed the soil in the Great Plains by doing this another cause of the Dust Bowl.
What is Overplowing the soil?
Americans said that Hoover's efforts took too long and that they were not enough.
What is "too little, too late"?
Programs created by FDR to alleviate the Great Depression and get the economy going.
What is The New Dea?
This is the day the stock market crashed.
What is Balck Tuesday?
President of the U.S. before FDR?
Who is Hoover?
The winds caused these massive formations during the dust bowl?
What are Dust Clouds with static electricity?
WWI veterans that went to Washington D.C. to demand a bonus they were promised after WWI ended?
What is the Bonus Army or Bonus Marchers?
This New Deal Program or ABC agency was created to protect Americans that were elderly, disabled, or unemployed.
What is Social Security?
People bought stock with borrowed money.
What is on margin?
FDR's wife and his eyes and ears and advisor on local matters.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The diseases caused by the Dust Bowl.
What is "brown or black lung disease"?
Homes built out of cardboard and scraps of wood by the homeless.
What are Hoovervilles?
This ABC Agency was created to protect YOU from losing your money in the bank.
What is FDIC?
Law passed in the 30s that prevented Mexican immigration to the U.S.
What is the Mexican Repatriation Act?
University Professors that advised FDR on ways to help the economy.
What is the "Brain Trust"
The area where the Dust Bowl happened in the U.S.
What is the Great Plains?
Hoover's belief that all Americans had free education and equal opportunities and a will to succeed.
What is "rugged individualism"?
This ABC agency was created to prevent cheating in the stock market.
What is Securities and Exchange Commission?
People should their resentment towards Hoover by taking out the empty pockets from their pants.
What are Hover Flags?
The inspiration behind Social Security?
Who is Francis Townsend?