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This 1929 event marked the start of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This New Deal program gave jobs to young men planting trees and building parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
He was the president who implemented the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
Before the Great Depression, the 1920s economy was called this due to superficial wealth.
What is “false prosperity”?
The belief that individuals should work their way out of hardship.
Rugged individualism
During the Great Depression, this percentage of Americans were unemployed at its peak.
What is about 25%?
This program employed millions, building roads, schools, bridges, and supporting artists.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
FDR’s plan to bring immediate relief, recovery, and reform was called this.
What is the New Deal?
This type of market speculation contributed to the stock market crash. It means to borrow money to buy stocks.
What is buying on margin?
These groups saw some New Deal benefits but still faced discrimination.
Who are African Americans and women?
Many people lost this type of property, often due to foreclosure during the Great Depression.
What are homes?
This New Deal law created retirement benefits, unemployment insurance, and aid to the disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
This First Lady was a strong advocate for minorities and the poor during the Great Depression.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Farmers’ debts and falling crop prices caused these.
What are foreclosures?
FDR’s government is sometimes called this type of “state,” helping groups that can organize and demand action.
What is a broker state?
Farmers were hit hard by this environmental disaster in the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This program built dams in the Southeast to provide electricity, flood control, and jobs.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
FDR’s critics accused him of being this because of how much power he and the government were taking.
What is a dictator?
As a result of the Depression, this branch of government became more powerful.
What is the executive branch?
Some criticized the New Deal for creating too many Americans reliant on this.
What is government aid / assistance?
Those who kept money in banks that failed often lost this.
What are their life savings?
This agency insured bank deposits, helping restore trust in banks.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
This Senator's "Share Our Wealth" program was a radical 1934 initiative proposed to counter the Great Depression, arguing the New Deal was too moderate.
Who is Huey Long
This economic system was preserved by the New Deal, even while reforms were introduced.
What is capitalism?
The time period of the Great Depression?
What is 1929–1940?