This program only employed young men between the ages of 18 and 25 years old
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps.
This President Created the New Deal
Who is FDR (Franklin Delanor Roosevelt)
This program provided electricty to thousands living in the Appalacian region and it also taught farmers crop rotation to conserve soil.
What is the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Nickname for the day the stock market crashed
What is Black Tuesday?
FDIC
What is Reform
This program mandated that businesses in the same industry set prices and level of production. It brought a fairness to business.
What is the National Recovery Administration.
This program also helped provide the U.S.A. with a well trained group of men who were prepared for WWII due to the rigor of their living environment.
What is CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps.)?
This program reassured Americans that their money was safe and would not be lost.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.)?
This image represents a shanty town aka...
What are Hoovervilles?
CCC
What is Relief?
This program gave $30.00 a week to their workers who were required to keep $5.00 and sent $25.00 home to their families.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
This program had young men working on conservation projects like planting trees, creating trails, and fighting forest fires.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps.)?
A drought in the midwest during The Great Depression that affected farmers was called...
What is the Dust Bowl?
WPA
What is Relief?
This program employed 8.5 million Americans while completing a variety of public work projects.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
President at the begining of the Great Depression who beleived that "people should pull themselves up by the boot straps" and not rely on government help.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
NIRA
What is Recovery?
This program was especially controversial as it provided money for people NOT to work.
What is AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Admin.)?
This program while very successful still cost the government $11 billion dollars.
What is the WPA (Works Progress Admin.)?
Millions of Americans were out of work and could not provide food for their families. Thousands of people lined up for food some of these that were run by charities.
What is a soup kitchen?
AAA
What is Recovery?
This program provided jobs though construction projects such as the building of the Triborough Bridge in NYC.
What is the PWA (Public Workks Administration)
The Liberty League, Francis Townsend & Huey Long
Critics of the New Deal; claimed that the US did not do enough for the poor & elderly
Created to protect investors and the national banking system.
What is the SEC? (Securities & Exchange Comminsion)
overproduction, underconsumption, poor banking system, unwise loans
What are causes of The Great Depression?
SEC
What is Reform?