The 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

takes place when many depositors decide to withdraw their money at one time.

• bank run

• Stock Market Crash

• long bull market

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

Program that provided aid to people with disabilities and pensions for retired workers

• Social Security

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Works Progress Administration

What caused many farmers to foreclose on their farms in the 1930s?

• Growing too few crops

• Overproduction of crops and costs of machines

• Expensive land and not enough workers

• The Wall Street Crash

What did RRR stand for in Roosevelt's New Deal?

• Revert, Reduce, Recover

• Restore, Recover, Readjust

• Relief, Recovery, Reform

• Reform, Restore, Reclaim

What was Roosevelt's New Deal?

• A series of government-funded bail outs

• A series of federally funded public works programs

• A hands-off approach to business and the economy

• A series of voluntary business recovery acts

During the Roaring Twenties, the US had just got out of __________, and business was booming.

• World War I

• World War II

• the Great Recession

• the Great Depression