Causes of the Great Depression
This is what happens when a company that you own stock in goes out of business.
What is lose your money?
What is a Hooverville?
President Hoover's plan to help the economy.
What is do nothing? (Hoover Dam is also acceptable)
CCC
1920's slang for somebody important.
Who is "The Big Cheese"?
A warning sign for the Great Depression.
Rich got Richer, Huge corporations got bigger, Small % of families have personal wealth, Personal debt, Installment plans, Speculation, Too many goods and too little demand, Trouble for farmers and workers
People waited in long ones to receive free food from soup kitchens.
What are breadlines?
The President that created the New Deal.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
WPA
What is the Works Progress Administration?
The sensationalized and often misleading qualities of yellow journalism played a large role in causing this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
A severe, multi-year drought that happened in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Migrants from the Dust Bowl who moved to California in search of a better life.
Who are Okies?
This act collects taxes from businesses and workers and distributes it to retirees, vulnerable workers, and their families. It is still a major financial support for many Americans today!
What is the Social Security Act?
NRA
What is the National Recovery Administration?
The name of the United States first government.
What are The Articles of Confederation?
What are banks?
What is 25%?
The AAA helped farmers recover financially by paying them to do this.
What is leave parts of their farms unplanted?
TVA
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Written by Upton Sinclair, this book's graphic descriptions of a food processing factory inspired the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
What is The Jungle?
This much money was lost on Black Tuesday.
What is $30 Billion?
Bonus! This famous gangster ran a soup kitchen to feed the unemployed, and improve his public image. It closed shortly before he was convicted of tax evasion.
Who is Al Capone?
This New Deal organization was tasked with building things like post offices, bridges, schools, libraries, highways and parks. It provided an estimated 8 million jobs. It was not allowed to compete with private business.
What is the WPA
AAA
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
This is the most common date for a United States President to die.
What is July 4th?