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

President (Republican) during the 1929 stock market crash.  Believed cities, states, and banks should try to lead in the recovery before the federal government because the fear of a growing national debt. Did little to improve the economy

• President Herbert Hoover

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt

• 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

agricultural migrant workers in California who came from Oklahoma.

• Okies

• Pokies

• Dust Bowl

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

The massive drought that happened at the same time as the Great Depression was called

• The Dust Bowl

• The Gold Rush

• Exodusters

• Reconstruction