People
I believe the only thing to fear is fear itself.
A system of buy now, pay later
Credit/loans
Oct. 29, 1929 market crash was known as.
Black Tuesday.
Provided Unskilled manual labor jobs to men.
Civilian Conservation Corps
Destroy them
Mobster who funded soup kitchens in Chicago until he was arrested for tax evasion.
Al Capone
A percentage of a company owned for a percentage of the profit.
Stock
A tax placed on imported goods
Tariff
Provided power and flood control (even though it caused some flooding)
Tennessee Valley Authority
The act said only Federal Reserve Banks could operate.
President who proposed the Reserved Bank system, but was ignored.
Woodrow Wilson
Money was is not to be lent out by banks and kept in the vault.
Reserves
Shack towns built on public spaces
Hoovervilles
Public Works Program
This nation was able to rely on itself and it's colonies to stay afloat.
England/Great Britain
The 31st President during the Great Depression who would later have "communities" named after him.
Herbert Hoover
This type of stock is generally bought on credit.
Margin Stock
The area of the Midwest plagued by drought.
Dust bowl
This provided benefits to those who were too young or too old to work.
Social Security
Money goes from the business owners down to workers...in theory
Trickle Down Economics
Was put in charge of Hoover's Reconstruction Fiance Corporation that failed.
Charles Dawes
A risky investment bet on how much a stock will be worth in the future, but no guarantee.
Stock Speculation
Designed to provide mass loans to major businesses, banks and railroads, that unfortunately didn't work.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
The group restricted what farmers could grow but was later deemed unconstitutional.
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
This bank robbing couple gained great fame and wreaked havoc during the Great Depression
Bonnie and Clyde