Causes of Great Depression
This took place in 1929 and is considered the start of the Great Depression since many investors lost all of their money as a result.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
What was the name of his plan he created to help improve the economy
What is the "New Deal"
Roughly this percentage of workers were unemployed during the Great Depression
25%
This agency gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This natural disaster made the Dust Bowl worse by drying out the soil.
Drought
During the Great Depression international trade decreased because of these
What were the 3 "R"s of the New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, & Reform.
What happened to the United States after the stock market crashed?
Many people lost everything and were left poor with no way to make money
This agency hired people to build roads, bridges, and schools.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This farming practice of overusing land helped cause soil erosion.
Over farming/power farming
What happened to the United States banks after the stock market crash?
Many banks ran out of money and worst forced to close.
The main goal of the First Hundred Days was to quickly provide this to struggling Americans.
What is relief?
The Great Depression harmed Americans due to the -
collapse of banks and low incomes
This agency built dams and brought electricity to the Tennessee Valley.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This economic event happened at the same time as the Dust Bowl.
When a company makes more products (TVs, Cars, Radios, etc) than people are willing to buy.
What is overproduction?
FDR temporarily closed banks during this event to stop panic.
What is the Bank Holiday?
Many people lost their homes and had to move to these
Hoovervilles
This agency paid farmers to grow fewer crops to raise prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
Many families had to choose to do this that lived in Dust Bowl states
Migrate/leave
What is it called when you borrow money in order to buy more stock?
What is "buying on margin"
FDR's new deal program did what to the size and scope of the government?
EXPANSION - it gave the government much more power and involvement in the daily lives of Americans.
How were farmers affected during the Great Depression?
Had a surplus of crops they could not sell, were not making money, had to burn crops for fuel.
(any of these work)
This program insured people’s bank deposits to prevent bank failures.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
This is the name of the region the Dust Bowl was taking place in
The Great Plains