The Great Depression
To commit money in the hopes of making more money in the future.
What is invest?
The name of FDR's plan to help Americans during the Great Depression.
What is The New Deal?
A person who moves from place to place to find work.
What is a migrant worker?
A sum paid regularly to a person, usually after retirement.
What is a pension?
Aid for the needy; welfare
What is relief?
A place where shares in corporations are bought and sold through an organized system.
What is a stock exchange?
A grant of money, often from the government, to a person or a company for an action intended to benefit the public.
What is a subsidy?
A political philosophy that stresses the glory of the state over the individual and that favors dictatorships.
What is fascism?
Payments by the government for a limited period of time to people who have lost their jobs.
What is unemployment insurance?
Term used in California to refer to people who migrated there for work during the Great Depression.
What are Okies?
To fail to meet an obligation, especially a financial one.
What is default?
Programs that give needy people jobs.
What is work relief?
This is the term for the environmental disaster on the Great Plains in the 1930's.
What is the Dust Bowl?
A new set of reforms that Roosevelt pushed in 1935 was known as this.
What is the Second New Deal?
This fascist leader of Germany was rising to power during the Great Depression.
Who is Adolph Hitler?
Projects such as the building of highways parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use.
What are public works?
Democrat who got elected president in 1932.
Who is Franklin D Roosevelt?
"Soap operas" were first played on this type of entertainment device.
What is a radio?
The name of a strike where workers occupied the plant but refused to work.
What is a sit-down strike?
This raised the price of goods purchased from other countries. Ben Stine talked about this in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
The name of the group of jobless veterans who camped out in Washington to demand money.
What is the Bonus Army?
This is a term for the period of time in the first few months of a presidency.
What is "Hundred Days"?
This female pilot disappeared during a quest to fly around the world.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This branch of government declared some parts of the New Deal unconstitutional.
What is the Supreme Court?
Type of structures did the Tennessee Valley Authority build?
What are dams?