Vocabulary
A certificate that entitles the owner a part of ownership in a company.
What is stock?
The president during the beginning of the Great Depression who was blamed for the hardships of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The person who implemented the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
When veterans who couldn't get money asked to get money from President Hoover.
What was the Bonus Army?
People who buy and sell stocks for clients, in return for a fee or commission.
What is a stockbroker?
The president who took over Herbert Hoover's position as president during the Great Depression, and enforced the New Deal
Who is FDR?
Three important charities during the Great Depression.
What are YMCA, Red Cross, V.O.A, Community Chest, Boy Scouts of America.
A big bunch of dust storms that devastated crops in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
A recession that leads to a decline in economic growth.
What is depression?
The president's wife who was the spokesman of the White House.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Many charities were part of this because of their acronyms.
What is the alphabet soup?
Where homeless people built shelters out of scraps and spare materials.
What were Hoovervilles?
The day when 12.9 million shares were sold, marking the start of the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
What is Black Thursday?
He held influential radio broadcasts where he criticized the New Deal.
Who is Father Charles Coughlin?
Soup kitchens and food stamps are an example of this.
What are socialist ideas.
This act implemented tariffs that froze international trade.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
The last day of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, where 16 million shares were sold.
What is Black Tuesday?
He critiqued social and political climate using his writing.
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
The difference between reform, relief, and recovery.
Relief refers to immediate assistance for those in need, recovery involves measures to stimulate the economy after a downturn, and reform aims to implement long-term changes to prevent future crises.
The name of large amounts of people going to the bank to withdraw money.
What is a bank run?