Costly Causes
This happened when businesses produced more goods than people could buy.
What is... Overproduction
This is a vast, flat region that includes Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma
What are... The Great Plains
This “R” focused on immediate help for people.
What is... Relief
This program built dams and provided electricity in the South.
What is... the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
This First Lady became an active advocate for social change
Who is... Eleanor Roosevelt
People not having enough money to purchase goods led to
What is... Underconsumption
This environmental disaster hit the Great Plains in the 1930s.
What is...The Dust Bowl
This “R” aimed to restart the economy.
What is... Recovery
This New Deal program provided jobs for young men working outdoors.
What is... the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
This was Eleanor Roosevelt's maiden name
What is... Roosevelt
Buying stocks with borrowed money is known as this.
What is... buying on margin
Many families moved west to this state in search of jobs.
What is... California
This “R” focused on preventing future economic problems.
What is... Reform
This law provided pensions for retirees and unemployment insurance
What is... the Social Security Act (SSA)
This New Deal agency hired Mr. Sloan's great-great-grandfather to build hiking trails in Great Smoky Mtn. National Park during the Great Depression...
What is... the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
This happens when people buy stocks hoping prices will go up quickly so they can make a profit.
What is... Speculation
These shantytowns were named after the president blamed for the Depression.
What are... Hoovervilles
This president created the New Deal.
Who is... Franklin D. Roosevelt
This program insured bank deposits to restore confidence.
What is... the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
FDR was stricken with this disease in 1921, leaving him paralyzed for much of his later years.
What is... Polio
This major event in October 1929 triggered the economic collapse.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
About this percentage of Americans were unemployed at the peak of the Depression.
What was... 25 percent
The New Deal changed how the American people interacted with who?
What is... The government
This program paid farmers to reduce production.
What is... the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
FDR’s plan to add more Supreme Court justices was called this.
What is... Court-packing