Great Depression Vocabulary

A time when many people took part in new

styles of dancing and dressing and rejected many traditional

moral standards.

• Roaring 20s

• Great Depression

• WWI

• Prosperity

a state of flourishing, thriving, success.

• poor

• prosperity

• soup kitchen

• investment

A sudden, dramatic decline of stock

prices resulting in a large loss of paper wealth.

• Dust Bowl

• Lusitania

• Stock Market Crash

• Hooverville

A period of economic hardship

that began in the U.S. with the stock market crash of

1929 and lasted into the 1940’s.

• The Great Depression

• Crash

• Spanish American War

• WWII

A period of economic hardship

that began in the U.S. with the stock market crash of

1929 and lasted into the 1940’s.

• Economy

• Prosperity

• Economic Depression

• Consumer

The part of the economy that provides

financial support for individuals and businesses.

• Wells Fargo

• Banking Sector

• Bank of America

• BB&T

The part of the economy that

collects taxes and provides public services.

• Government Sector

• Household Sector

• Inauguration

• FDR

The part of the economy, in a free-market,

where goods and services are produced.

• Jesse Owens

• Sector

• Walmart

• Business Sector

The name given to the Great Plains during the

1930’s when drought and soil erosion resulted in a period

of severe dust storms.

• Dust Bowl

• Herbert Hoover

• Volcano

• Sector

a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall

resulting in a water shortage

• great plains

• swing

• drought

• blues