Important People
He was the United States president that gave "relief" to the people during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
This event is often considered to be the starting point of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
As a result of the failure of their farms due to the Dust Bowl, many people migrated to _____ to find farming work.
What is the West / California?
This is the name of the relief programs introduce by FDR during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
President Hoover believed in this approach to managing the economy
What is Laissez-Faire of Hands-Off?
This was the First Lady during the late years of the Great Depression that spoke out for women's rights and equality for Black Americans.
Who is Eleanore Roosevelt?
List 2 Major Causes of the Dust Bowl
1. What is a drought
2. What is over farming
List 2 negative effects of the Dust Bowl
Respiratory issues, Damage to farms, violent storms,
The Program of the New Deal that insured American's deposits in the bank.
What is FDIC?
A prolonged and severe downturn in economic activity, marked by high unemployment, low production, falling income levels, and a drop in consumer spending.
What is an Economic Depression?
Advocated for minority rights and supported initiatives for the impoverished, playing an active role in social issues and assembling the "Black Cabinet" to advise on policies affecting African Americans.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
These reduced international trade, worsening the global economic downturn.
High Tariffs
The unemployed and poor often lived in "shanty towns." They were often referred to as.
What are Hoovervilles?
Some critics who thought the New Deal went too far, believed that it gave the president too much __________.
What is power or authority?
This is where brokers and traders can buy and sell stocks.
What is the Stock Market?
Advocated limited government intervention, believing in "rugged individualism" and voluntary relief. His approach failed to address widespread poverty and unemployment effectively.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
In what decade did the Great Depression mostly occur?
What are the 1930's?
During the Great Depression, people would line up at ____________ to get food. These were normally run by charities.
What are soup kitchens/breadlines?
President FDR's believed in This approach to managing the economy.
What is hands-on?
If many people are not employed, they are not making money. If people are not making money _______.
What is they are not buying products OR companies don't do well.
He was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This term was used to define the region of the American mid-west that suffered a devastating drought full of huge dirt storms during the 1930's.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This is where Americans sought distraction through radio, movies, and other entertainment to temporarily escape the harsh realities of daily life.
What is escapism?
FDR gave these encouraging radio speeches weekly to the American people
What are Fireside Chats?
True or False: The Great Depression was an economic downturn that occurred world-wide.
What is TRUE?
This group mainly criticized FDR for his policies.
Who are Conservatives/Republicans?
After the stock market crash, people rushed to their banks causing this.
What is Banks closing down/Bank runs?
Group of WWI veterans and their families who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand early payment of bonuses promised for their service, only to be forcibly removed, hurting Hoover’s reputation.
What is the Bonus Army?
Established retirement benefits, unemployment insurance, and aid for the disabled and poor families.
What is Social Security?
True or False: The Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance were important events during the Great Depression.
What is false?
This group of people were deported from the U.S. to make room for white migrant farmers in the West.
Who are Mexican Americans?
This is when people take out a loan to buy stock
what is buying on margin?
During the Great Depression many people struggled to afford:
What are basic necessities?
These are referred to as the Three R’s
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
A measure of the total value of goods and services produced, drastically declined during the Great Depression.
GNP
This is a group of lawyers, educators, and scientists who advised FDR on his economic policies
What is the Brain Trust?
True or False. When the stock market crashed, many people couldn't pay back the money they had borrowed.
What is true?
This happened to the gap between rich and poor.
What is increased?
This promoted workers’ rights, leading to a rise in union membership.
Wagner Act (NLR)
This major event followed the Great Depression and helps end the Great Depression in the US.
What is World War II?