The Great Depression

A form of insurance where employers and workers would pay the tax to cover unemployment benefits, old age pensions, programs for the blind, and for children of workers who had died. It also helped provide pensions for retired workers, their spouses and helped people with disabilities.

• Dust Bowl

• Hoover

• Stock Market

• Social Security Act

This repealed prohibition.

• Stock Market

• New Deal

• 21st Amendment

• 18th Amendment

Migrant workers who moved in search of work after being displaced from the Midwest.

• Dust Bowl

• Okies

• World War II

• Hoovervilles

The 1929 crash of this led to many people losing all their money.

• Okies

• World War II

• Stock Market

• Hoovervilles

An extreme drought in the Midwest caused this and many people had to move.

• Hoover

• Dust Storm

• Hoovervilles

• Dust Bowl

America’s entrance into this helped bring them out of the great depression.

• World War II

• World War I

• Revolutionary War

• Civil War

This man was the U.S President when the Great Depression began.

• Hoover

• Regan

• Roosevelt

• Biden

Roosevelt and the US Government passed several programs known as this

• The New Deal

• Black Tuesday

• World War II

• CCC

Shanty towns that were constructed all over America.

• Hoover

• Okies

• Shantytowns

• Hoovervilles

How did the stock market crash mainly lead to bank runs?

• People were upset they had lost money and went ot the bank to borrow more.

• People were panicked they would lose their money the had invested in stocks.

• People were panicked they would lose their money that they had invested in the banks.

• People thought if they did not get their money out, then the government would take it.