Causes of the Great Depression
Tuesday, October 29, 1929 is known as this
What is 'black Tuesday'?
This was a name for tiny towns made up of small shacks
What are Shantytowns/Hoovervilles?
This early period in the Roosevelt Presidency where Congress passed 15 new pieces of legislation is referred to as
What is 'The Hundred Days'?
This woman was a social activist who traveled the country to see the conditions of the people, and would report back to FDR
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Farmers were slipping deeper and deeper into this
What is debt?
This is an arrangement in which consumers agree to buy now and pay later for purchases.
What is credit?
This is something that was happening to several farms, a term that is the process by which a mortgage holder takes back the property if an occupant has not made payments.
What is foreclosure?
The Colorado River gets blocked off by this famous Dam, which was a part of President Hoover's public works program.
What is the Hoover Dam?
This act gave retirement insurance, unemployment compensation, and aid to families with children and disabled people
What is the Social Security Act?
This was an event that plagued the midwest after they experienced a drought and farmers had plowed up and exposed much of the topsoil
What is the 'Dust Bowl'?
This is the number of businesses that went bankrupt between 1929 and 1933
What is 90,000?
These were people who wandered the country, hitched rides with railroad boxcars, and slept under bridges.
What are hoboes?
In his first day in office, Hoover closed these businesses.
What are banks?
This administration gave jobs to 8 million workers and built 850 airports, along with other things
What is the Works Progress Administration?
This is the most widely used barometer of the stock market health.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
This infamous tariff ended up cutting world trade by 40%
What is the Hawley Smoot Tariff?
These are cash payments or food are provided by the government to the poor.
What is 'direct relief'?
These were radio where FDR talks about issues of public concern, explaining in clear, simple language New Deal measures.
What are 'fireside chats'?
This provided education, jobs, counseling, and recreation for young people.
What is the NYA?
This phrase is used to describe when there is a period of rising stock prices
What is bull market?
Many people were buying stock using this method, that involved paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.
What is 'buying on margin'?
These were were teenagers of poor farmers, out-of-work miners, and rich parents who lost everything. They traveled on boxcars to find adventure, and jobs, and to escape poverty
Who are 'wild boys'?
This happens when the government is spending more money than it receives in revenue.
What is deficit spending?
Roosevelt was able to appoint this many new supreme court justices
What is 7?
Investors lost this much money on black tuesday
What is 30 billion dollars?