The Great Depression

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.

Ownership in shares of a company or corporation

• CEO
• Insurance
• Stocks

President during the 1930s who was considered a failure because he couldn't fix the Great Depression.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Margaret Mitchell
• Jessie Owens

The president who promised the people a "New Deal" during the Great Depression.

• Jesse Owens
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• George Washington

What program did Franklin Roosevelt create in order to help Americans during the Great depression?

• Roosevelts boys
• Newer Deal
• New Deal
• FDR's relief

Who was President of the US when the stock market crashed and Depression began?

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• William McKinley

Who was elected president because he had a plan to pull America out of the Great Depression?

• William McKinley
• Woodrow Wilson
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

During the Great Depression, there was a severe drought in the Great Plains. Strong prairie winds picked up the topsoil and spread dust everywhere. Many farm families packed everything up and moved west. What was this event called?

• Dust Bowl
• Salad Bowl
• Great Plains Panic
• Depressing Dust