The Great Depression

What event occurred on Black Tuesday?

• Unemployment reached nearly 25%
• The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates
• Investor sold more than 16 million shares of stock
• Germany stopped reparation payments to the United States

When was the Great Depression?

• 1919-1929
• 1929-1939
• 1939-1949
• 1999-2009

What is inflation?

• When someone has too much money and they spend it all
• Blowing up a balloon with money in it.
• When too much money is printed, it loses value.
• When a country has extreme wealth

The __________________  was the longest period of unemployment and low economic activity in the 1900's.

• New Deal
• Great Depression
• Dust Bowl
• Civil War

Who was president during the New Deal?

• Theodore Rooesvelt
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Woodrow Wilson

Who provided jobs, relief, farm subsidies, education, training, and participation in a variety of programs?

• Black Shirts
• Federal Agencies
• The Communist Party
• The Republican Party

What does this photograph show?

• bank closures
• a Hooverville
• the Dust Bowl
• the stock market crash

What does this picture show?

• A Hooverville
• Poverty in the 1920s
• A boy working for money
• A wealthy Broadway star

What was the New Deal?

• It was a time when people in the U.S. were allowed to come to Europe and work. 
• It was a peace treaty between the Atlanta raves and the  Boston Red Socks. 
• It created jobs by building new building and monuments, which needed workers.
•  It was a program that provided people with money to buy food and housing and to put them back to work. 

Who are these people?

• hoboes
• immigrants
• tourists
• carpet baggers