The Roaring 20s and Great Depression Review

The Great Depression

• President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to help the country during the Great Depression. The programs that were created focused on Relief, Recover, and Reform.

• the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world

Dust Bowl

• poor farming techniques, massive draught, and high winds led to devastating dust storms during the Great Depression. Effected the Midwest mainly states like New Mexico and Kansas where the most severe damage occurred.

• the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world

The New Deal

• President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to help the country during the Great Depression. The programs that were created focused on Relief, Recover, and Reform.

• Buying stocks now but paying for it over time

Public Works Programs

• Projects that were created by the government during the New Deal to give people jobs.

• On Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock market completely crashed. The depression did not start because of this but was a sign that the economy may collapse.

Buying on Margin

• nickname for lines that began to form when people needed free meals during the Great Depression

• Buying stocks now but paying for it over time which was one of the causes of the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

Bread Lines

• nickname for lines that began to form when people needed free meals during the Great Depression

• Program passed in 1935 that gave money to Americans over the age of 65, the unemployed, the disabled and helped the economy of the US

Fireside Chats

• make something happen

• President FDR's use of the radio to communicate messages to the American people about New Deal programs and what was going in the country during the Great Depression

Social Security

• nickname for lines that began to form when people needed free meals during the Great Depression

• Program passed in 1935 that gave money to Americans over the age of 65, the unemployed, the disabled and helped the economy of the US

What does 'economy' refer to?

• how a country makes and spends money

• President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to help the country during the Great Depression. The programs that were created focused on Relief, Recover, and Reform.

Discrimination and Segregation

• how a country makes and spends money

• due to the fact that there were still Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws, people of color were not helped as much by New Deal programs