Great Depression and New Deal

Explain the Stock Market Crash.

• People purchased stocks with credit, got scared and sold their stocks. There was no money to pay people their money
• People purchased stock
• People threw their money away

 Define The Great Depression

• Loan given to help you buy items you normally cannot buy on your own.
• homeless person who travels looking for work.
• The time in American history when the U.S. was at it's lowest point.

Define Black Tuesday

• Group of government programs created to try and end the Great Depression.
• October 29, 1929 when the stock market crashed. It was the official start of the Great Depression
• Minimal improvement in economy. FDR urged congress to pass additional programs.

On October 29th, 1929 the stock market took an all time drop with millions losing their life savings this is known as

• Black Wednesday

• Black Tuesday

• Black Saturday

• Stock Monday

Click ALL of the following that could apply to the effects of the Great Depression

• Bank failures

• Unemployment rises

• Rise of Banks opening

• Life Savings lost

Which of the following BEST describes farmers during the Great Depression

• Many farmers found success through out the depression selling their items to other countries

• Many farmers found success through out the depression selling their items to hungry Americans

• a drought and low prices forced many farmers into poverty and foreclosures

Shantytowns and homes made by homeless people from scrap wood and tins become known as

• Depressionville

• Government homes

• Hooverville

After President Hoover failed to help the public, who ran for election on the slogan a New Deal for Americans?

• Franklin D Roosevelt

• Harry S Truman

• Calvin Coolidge

• Herbert Hoover

The New Deal is BEST described as

• fixing and ending the Great Depression giving millions a steady job and a regular paycheck moving forward into the 1940s

• being the same thing President Hoover did just setting up a system of empty promises given to the people

• temporary help and relief to some Americans, but could not sustain or end the Great Depression

The Great Depression began in

• 1929

• 1932

• 1933

• 1919