Great Depression

the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

• economic depression

• Great Depression

• credit

• stock market

Period when business activity slows, prices and wages drop, and unemployment rises

• stock market

• New Deal

• economic depression

• Great Depression

the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.

• Dust Bowl

• New Deal

• Social Security Act

• credit

WWI veterans who marched on Washington demanding their $1,000 bonus pay before the 1945 due date.

• Bonus Army

• Hovervilles

• CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)

• WPA (Works Progress Administration)

a system for buying and selling stocks in corporations

• credit

• stock market

• SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)

• FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

A nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930s

• New Deal

• TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

• Dust Bowl

• Social Security Act

a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.

• New Deal

• Social Security Act

• economic depression

• Hovervilles

A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

• New Deal

• CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)

• Social Security Act

• Bonus Army

relief that provided work for young men 18-25 years old in food control, planting, flood work, etc.

• FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

• CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)

• TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

• WPA (Works Progress Administration)

New Deal program which gave electricity and jobs to rural Appalachia, including AL

• WPA (Works Progress Administration)

• FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

• Hovervilles

• TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)