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Vocab
The Crash
Life During the Great Depression
The First New Deal
The Second New Deal
100
To buy stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest.
What is on margin?
100
When did the stock market crash?
October 29, 1929
100
Who was in the work force more than ever before?
What is women?
100
This program provided jobs for young men to plant trees and build bridges. Its know as the CCC.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
100
This program set up a system of pensions for the elderly, unemplyed and people with disabilities. This program is also know as the SSA.
What is the Social Security Act?
200
A grant of money.
What is a subsidy?
200
who was president at the beginning of the great depression?
What is Herbert Hoover?
200
What enviornmental disaster occured during the depression?
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
This program insured savings accounts in banks approved by the government. It's also know as the FDIC.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
200
This program loaned money to extend electricity to rural areas. This program is also know as the REA.
What is the Rural Electrification Administration?
300
A sum paid regularly to a person, usually after retirement.
What is a pension?
300
People who lost their homes built shelters made out of old boxes and debris. What did they call a community of these?
What is a Hooverville?
300
What 3 minority groups were hit hard during the great depression?
What is African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanic Americans?
300
Helps set standards for production, prices, and wages.
What is the National Recovery Administration?
300
Employed men and women to build hospitals, schools, parks, and airports; employed artists, writers and musicians.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
400
A payment made by the government to people who have lost their jobs.
What is unemployment insurance?
400
Who was elected in 1932?
What is Franklin Roosevelt?
400
Millions of people went to the movies every week. In 1940, a movie came out about families fleeing the Dust Bowl. What is this movie called?
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
400
Paid farmers not to grow certain crops.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
400
Lent money to sharecroppers; set up camps for migrant workers.
What is the Farm Security Administration?
500
A special session of Congress that dealt with problems of the Depression.
What are the hundred days?
500
in 1932, what percent of Americans were out of work?
What is 25%?
500
Once a week President Roosevelt would come onto the radio and talk to America about what he was doing in office and why. What were those called?
What are fireside chats?
500
Built dams to provide cheap electric power to seven Southern states; set up schools and health care centers.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
Established minimum wages and maximum hours for all businesses engaged in interstate commerce.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?