Causes of the Great Depression
This risky practice involved buying stocks hoping their prices would rise quickly.
What is speculation?
President Hoover believed people should rely on themselves rather than government help. This idea was called this.
What is rugged individualism?
These long lines formed outside charities where people waited for food.
What are breadlines?
This president created the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This president was in office when the Depression began.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Buying stocks using borrowed money was known as this.
What is buying on margin?
This government organization loaned money to banks and businesses during the Depression.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)?
By 1933 unemployment reached about this percentage.
What is 25%?
Roosevelt spoke directly to Americans through radio talks known as this.
What are fireside chats?
This election brought Franklin Roosevelt to power.
What is the Election of 1932?
The major stock market crash happened in this yea
What is 1929
These World War I veterans marched on Washington in 1932 demanding early bonus payments.
Who were the Bonus Army?
These huge dust storms destroyed farms in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This New Deal program created jobs building roads, bridges, and public buildings.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This famous dam built during the Depression provided jobs and hydroelectric power.
What is Hoover Dam?
This tariff raised taxes on imports and worsened the global economic crisis.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
These shantytowns where homeless people lived were named after Hoover.
What are Hoovervilles?
Many migrants moved to this western state looking for farm jobs.
What is California?
This program provided retirement benefits and unemployment insurance.
What is Social Security?
Roosevelt proposed adding more justices to the Supreme Court in this controversial plan.
What is the court-packing plan?
Severe drought and poor farming practices created this environmental disaster in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Hoover preferred helping this group instead of giving direct relief to citizens.
Who are banks and businesses?
Photographers like this woman documented poverty with famous photos like 'Migrant Mother'.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
This New Deal law protected workers' right to join unions.
What is the Wagner Act?
This law established a federal minimum wage and limited child labor.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?