Important People
He was a famous jazz piano player and composer. He was known for starting the "Big Band" music.
Who is Duke Ellington?
Drought and over-farming ruined crops, farms, and homes in this area of the Great Plains. Severe windstorms ruined the land and many people moved from this area to California.
What is The Dust Bowl?
The set of laws FDR introduced, and Congress passed to deal with the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
She was the author of the book Gone With the Wind which later became a movie.
Who is Margaret Mitchell?
Stocks fell very quickly causing a panic where thousands of investors sold off their stocks; banks and people lost money.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
The president who was elected in 1932 and served 3 full terms. He was re-elected for a 4th term but died before fulfilling that last term.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
He was the U.S. President from 1929-1933 and was blamed for many of the problems in America, including the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
During this time period, many people lost their homes and jobs. Many families had very little money to feed their families.
What is the Great Depression?
This program hired people to build public buildings, roads, parks, and hired artists to paint murals; employed 8.5 million people.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
He was the U.S. President from 1933-1945. He started New Deal programs to help Americans during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The place where families could go to eat a free meal. Often, the meal was bread and water.
What are soup kitchens?
The program that created jobs for young men and conserved the natural environment by planting trees, clearing hiking trails, and other conservation projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
He was an African American athlete who won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
The places where homeless families lived during the Depression. These places were clusters of homes made out of cardboard, car parts, and scraps of wood.
What are Shantytowns or Hoovervilles?
This program built dams to prevent flooding and provide electricity for states in the southeastern United States.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?