Vocabulary
What was the Great Depression?
A severe economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted through the 1930s, causing widespread unemployment and poverty.
What was the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930's?
The Great Depression
Which New Deal program gave young men jobs working on environmental projects like planting trees and building parks?
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Who was president when the stock market crashed in 1929?
Herbert Hoover
What were breadlines?
Lines of people waiting for free food
What is Unemployment
The condition of being without a job while actively seeking work.
Which President was blamed for going into the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
Which New Deal program created pensions for the elderly and unemployment insurance?
Social Security Act
Who defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 presidential election?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What types of entertainment were popular during the Great Depression?
Radio programs, movies, and music
What is Overproduction?
When factories and farms produce more goods than people can afford to buy.
What was the name for a very poor areas where small shacks were built from scrap materials named after the President who got the US in the Great Depression such as shown in the image above?
Hoovervilles / Shanty Towns
Which program helped farmers by paying them to reduce crop production to raise prices?
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
What was FDR’s plan to help the country recover from the Great Depression called?
The New Deal
What were the three goals of the New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, Reform
What was the name for "A makeshift neighborhood of shacks built by homeless people during the Depression."
Hoovervilles
The Great Plains were severely damaged by drought and dust storms in the 1930's from what?
The Dust Bowl
Which agency insured bank deposits to protect people’s money if a bank failed?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
What were FDR’s radio speeches to the American people called?
Fireside Chats
What caused the Dust Bowl?
Drought and poor farming practices
What does it mean if something is forclosed?
When a bank takes ownership of property because loans are not paid.
What was the name for the day the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929?
Black Tuesday
Which program provided direct relief payments to unemployed Americans early in the New Deal?
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
What disease affected President Roosevelt's and paralyzed him from the waist down?
Polio
How did the Great Depression affect American families?
Families struggled financially and often relied on each other for support