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Depression
Depression 2
People
Recovery 1
Recovery 2
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Caused the US to enter a depression
stock market crash of 1929
100
An area of the Great Plains devastated because of a drought in the 1930's
Dust Bowl
100
Only American President elected 4 times
FDR
100
An economic _________ is a severe economic downturn during which business is bad, unemployment is high, and poverty becomes widespread. The opposite is a period of prosperity
Depression
100
A founding father of Jazz music
Duke Ellington
200
Name for FDR's approach for having the government help the people
New Deal
200
Lasting 10 years, this was the longest-lasting economic downturn for the US
Great Depression
200
President at the time of the stock market crash in 1929
Herbert Hoover
200
Promised the American people a New Deal
FDR
200
Series of programs to create jobs and help citizens
New Deal
300
People who lost their homes lived in shanty towns called _____________
Hoovervilles
300
After the stock market crashed people rushed to withdraw money from their accounts and event called a ______ on the banks.
run
300
What did some people lose when the stock market crashed and the banks failed?
everything
300
Board game that became popular in the 1930's because people could get rich
Monopoly
300
Act to help farmers by raising prices
Agricultural Adjustment Act
400
Effect of the drought on the economy in the 1930's
made it worse
400
Spoke to people using "fireside chats"
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
400
The Great Depression only affected some people- T or F
tricky- The Great Depression did not affect everyone the same way. Many rich people felt no impact at all, and were oblivious to the suffering of others. Up to forty percent of the country never faced real hardship during those years. But most were touched by it in some way.
400
Major event that brought the Roaring 20's to a halt
The stock market crash of 1929
400
Prevented forest fires, floods and soil erosion by public works projects
Civilian Conservation Corps
500
Opposite of an economic boom
depression
500
October 29, 1929 will be forever known as what day?
Black Tuesday
500
President who was blamed for the depression
Herbert Hoover
500
Wrote "Gone with the Wind" published in 1936
Margaret Mitchell
500
Famous African American in track and field in the 1930's
Jesse Owen