Loans and other forms of credit were given to nearly everyone who asked.
What is Easy Credit.
100
Mini towns made of shacks and other poor quality, quickly thrown together "homes."
What are Hoovervilles?
100
Group of government programs created to help America recover from the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
100
SEC
What is Securities and Exchange Commission?
100
Improves the Tennessee Valley by adding dams and power plants.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
200
Making risky investments in the hopes of quick returns and large profits.
What is Speculation?
200
A group of veterans and their families who marched on Washington DC trying to get money that the military had promised them.
What is the Bonus Army?
200
More government programs created to help America recover from the Great Depression.
What is the second New Deal?
200
FDIC
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
200
Offers the unemployed jobs in construction, teaching, and the arts.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
300
When stocks are bought with credit.
What is Buying on Margin?
300
Are in the middle of the country that suffered from horrible weather and crippled the country's ability to produce food.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
This is name for government spending when it is larger than the amount of money the government brings in for taxes. FDR used it to help the US recover from the depression.
What is Deficit Spending?
300
CCC
What is Civillian Conservation Corps
300
Gave young, unemployed men jobs doing physical labor like building roads.
What is the Civillian Conservation Corps?
400
Significantly raised taxes on imports and caused a massive decline in foreign trade.
What is the Hawley Smoott Tariff Act
400
President Roosevelt used the radio to address the country in these.
What are the Fireside Chats?
400
FDR's solution to the Supreme Court's repeated decision not to allow the New Deal to be law.
What is Court Packing?
400
WPA
What is the Works Progress Administration?
400
Gave young people jobs.
What is the National Youth Administration?
500
October 29, 1929. When the stock market lost record setting amounts of money.
What is Black Tuesday?
500
This writer described the terrible struggle that farmers displaced by the Dust Bowl and otherwise effected by the Great Depression.
Who is John Steinbeck?
500
An organization created to improve the people's faith in banks by guaranteeing deposits up to a certain amount.
What is the FDIC?
500
TVA
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
Senior Citizens, the disabled, the unemployed, and families with dependent children.