Great Depression

Period of time beginning in 1929 and lasting through the 1930s where people lost jobs and didn’t have enough food; the economy took a downfall

• The Great Depression

• The Great Recession

• The New Deal

October 29, 1929 Stock Market crash

• Black Tuesday

• Black Friday

• Black Market

shantytowns, communities of makeshift shacks on unused or public land nicknamed after President Herbert Hoover

• Hoovervilles

• Rooseveltvilles

• margin call

drought-related conditions in the Great Plains states.

• Dust Bowl

• Acai Bowl

• Duster

helped Americans recover from the Depression

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt

• President Herbert Hoover

• Dust Bowl

Roosevelt’s policies for ending the Depression

• New Deal

• Real Deal

• Square Deal

Direct talks FDR held with the American people to let them know his plan

• Fireside Chats

• IG Chat

• Radio Talks

Which of the following is a term for buying something now and paying for it later?

• Credit 
• Debit
• Speculation 
• Investment 

Which TWO answers best describe President Herbert Hoover's presidency during the Great Depression?

• A very hands-on government

• Mostly hands-off government

• Largely unable to better economic conditions

• Created many New Deal programs

People who could no longer afford their homes were forced to live in cardboard shacks that they built in public parks. What were these shacks called?

• Shantyshacks
• Town Homes
• Tenement Housing
• Hoovervilles