Causes
Making too many goods that people cannot buy.
What is overproduction
This word means being without a job.
What is unemployment (unemployed)?
During the Great Depression, African Americans were often the first to lose their jobs and the last to be hired.
What is last-hired, first-fired?
This President created the New Deal
Who was Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR)?
This 1935 law created retirement benefits and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
This event is considered the start of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Homeless communities built during the Depression were called this.
What were Hoovervilles?
This is the average unemployment rate for African Americans.
What is 50%?
This was the goals of the New Deal.
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This program employed millions of people, building roads, bridges, and schools.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
In the 1920s, many Americans bought goods this way, promising to pay later.
What is buying on Credit?
This environmental disaster caused dust storms and destroyed farms.
What was the Dustbowl?
Many Mexican Americans were forced or pressured to leave the United States during the Great Depression.
What was Mexican Repatriation?
This program gave jobs to young men doing conservation work.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This law protected workers’ right to form labor unions.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act
After the stock market crashed, many Americans panicked because they lost this.
What are their savings (investments)?
Farmers often lost their land because they could not repay this.
What were loans (or debts)?
These laws prevented African Americans from receiving New Deal aid.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This program insured bank deposits to restore trust in banks.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
Some critics argued the New Deal gave too much of this to the federal government.
What is Power
This economic problem occurred because most of the nation’s wealth was held by a small number of people.
What is unequal distribution of wealth?
When unemployment increased, this dropped because people had no money to spend.
What is Consumer Spending?
Many Mexican Americans worked in this industry, which was hit hard during the Great Depression.
What is Agriculture (farm labor)?
This agency regulated the stock market to prevent another crash.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
This event is credited with ending the Great Depression.
What is World War II?