The Great Depression

Vocabulary 1

100

A share in a corporation (business)

Stock 

200

A tax on imported goods (goods coming from another country to be sold in the U.S. )

Tariff 

300

Buying and selling stocks in the stock market to make a profit instead of as an investment 

Stock Speculation 

400

A regular payment made during a person's retirement from an investment fund to which that person or their employer has contributed during their working life 

Pension 

500

A difference that is not fair (too small or large in relation to something)

Disproportionate 

Events/Programs

100

The period of time between 1929 and 1941 that was the worst period of economic decline in the U.S. 

The Great Depression 

200

The event on Tuesday, October 29, 1929 in which stock prices fell to very low levels 

Stock Market Crash 

300

FDR's plan to make programs that would end the Great Depression 

New Deal 

400

New Deal programs like the Agricultural Adjustment Act that provided government money to help farmers 

Farm Assistance Programs 

500

New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Civilian Conservation Corps that created jobs for Americans in environmental improvement projects 

Environmental Improvement Programs 

Vocabulary 2

100

This is also called the FED, a system of federal banks that enables the federal government to control the U.S. money supply 

Federal Reserve

200

A group of shacks in which homeless people lived during the Great Depression, named for President Herbert Hoover 

Hooverville 

300

Migrant workers from the Great Plains who lost their farms and livelihoods during the Great Depression 

Okies

400

A system of pensions for older Americans that was originally part of the New Deal 

Social Security 

500

Government corporation created after the Great Depression to insure money Americans put into banks up to $250,000

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)