Causes of the Great Depression | New Deal Programs | The Great Depression | Random | Groups during the depression |
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What is Stock Market
The ______________________ crash on October 29, 1929.
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What is the FDIC
This program federally insures bank deposits up to $250,000.
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Who is Herbert Hoover?
The president when the Great Depression started?
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What is buying on margin?
Paying a small percentage of a stock and borrowing the rest.
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Who is Francis Perkins?
The first woman cabinet member.
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What is Tariffs
Countries raised ____________, or a tax on imports, to promote domestic goods.
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What is the Social Security Act
This program gives insurances to retired, elderly, disabled, and the unemployed.
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What is the New Deal?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to fix the depression.
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What are tariffs?
Taxes on imports
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Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
American educator and civil rights leader. Helped push for minority training and employment in the National Youth Administration.
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What is
The _______________ due to over farming, drought, and price shortages.
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What is the Works Progress Administration
This program put people back to work as quickly as possible. Hiring people for jobs such as mowing the lawn or raking leaves.
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What are 'fireside chats'
FDR's radio talks to the nation.
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What is 'Rugged Individualism'?
A belief, shared by Herbert Hoover, that people should help themselves rather than rely on government help.
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What is the New Deal Coalition?
Group consisting of labor unionists, farmers, minorities and other groups that supported FDR during the depression.
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What is credit
People were purchasing to many goods on......
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What is the Farm Security Administration
This New Deal program hired photographers to take pictures of farms and rural areas, hoping to convince people to support certain New Deal programs.
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What is direct relief?
Receiving food, money, or other resources directly from the government.
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Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Social reformer and FDR's wife.
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What are economic, cultural, and political
The three ways Native Americans experienced freedom during the Great Depression with the passage of the Indian Reorganization Act
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What is the Unequal Distribution of Income
This cause has to do with the disparity among peoples incomes.
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What is Civilian Conservation Corps?
Planted trees, built roads, and parks; employing men 18-25.
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What are Hoovervilles?
Nickname for shantytowns during the beginning of the Great Depression.
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What is credit?
Buy now, pay later.
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Who is A. Philip Randolph?
He established the country's first all-black trade union-The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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