Great Depression

Name of "towns" made of homeless people living in homes of old boxes and boards.

• Roosevilles

• Hoovervilles

• New Deal

• FDIC

Area of severe drought and dust storms in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico.

• Dust Bowl

• Alphabet Agencies

• New Deal

• Prohibition

Nickname given to New Deal programs

• Great Depression

• Hoovervilles

• Alphabet Agencies

• Surplus

WW 1 veterans who went to Washington, DC to ask Congress for an early pension payment.

• Installment Credit

• CCC

• Bonus Army

• TVA

Started with the stock market crash in 1929 and lasted until 1941.

• Dust Bowl

• Margin Investing

• New Deal

• Great Depression

This got the US out of the Great Depression.

• WW 2

• WW 1

• Black Tuesday

• Black Sunday

Name for the worst day of dust storms (April 14, 1935) in the Great Depression.

• Wild Wednesday

• Black Tuesday

• Black Sunday

• Sad Sunday

Name given to the day the stock market crashed.

• Black Tuesday

• Terrible Tuesday

• Black Sunday

• Red Tuesday

A way to buy stocks by putting 10% down and borrowing the rest from the bank.

• Surplus

• Supply and Demand

• Margin Investing

• Recession

President when the Great Depression started

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• Harry S Truman

• Woodrow Wilson