The Great Depression

The President who was mostly blamed for worsening the Great Depression 

• Roosevelt 
• Eisenhower
• Hoover
• Jefferson

The name given to the programs enforced by FDR to ensure relief, recovery and reform. 

• Stock Market 
• Great Depression
• Margin 
• New Deal 

Homes that were in parks and built out of cardboard boxes were called Hoovervilles. 

• True
• False

The condition of being out of work, began to grow. 

• stock market
• unemployment
• credit
• Herbert Hoover

 A long period without rainfall hit the Great Plains in the 1930s.

• drought
• credit
• mud
• Dust Bowl

A long line where people received food from the government. People waited for hours.

• soup kitchen
• church
• police department
• school

The New Deal

• was a failure.
• created new jobs.
• only helped farmers.
• increased unemployment.

During the 1920s, which economic trend helped cause the Great Depression?

• buying goods on credit
• saving rather than spending
• continuing shortages of consumer goods
• imposing low tariffs on imported products

What did farmers do after WWI that caused many of them to lose their farms?

• They cut back on farm production.
• They sold their farms.
• They went off to war.
• They continued to overproduce.

Who are these people?

• hoboes
• immigrants
• tourists
• carpet baggers